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Guatemalan doctors liked Salvatore Lanza at first. A slender, high-strung Italian in his middle 30s, he was loaded with Old World charm. From his voluble talk, it appeared that he was a devoted scientist and surgeon, educated at European universities. About his specialty, plastic surgery, he seemed to know all there was to know. Since plastic surgery is a virgin field in Guatemala, several doctors gratefully accepted his services as a consultant...
...Lanza made friends outside medical circles, too. Within a few months after his arrival in Guatemala in mid-1950, he and his personable Italian wife had struck up a warm friendship with Defense Minister
Rafael O'Meany. Presently O'Meany appointed Lanza to the staff of the Military Hospital, and provided him with a furnished house...
Bones & Boasts. At the hospital, Lanza avoided run-of-the-ward tasks. He devoted his energies and talents to persuading his superiors that what Guatemala needed was a bone bank for surgical grafts. As a result, a delegation of Mexican officers and doctors journeyed to Guatemala last October to attend the inauguration of the country's first bone bank-six small glass jars of frozen bone fragments...
Hailed as a great man and a boon to the nation, Lanza drank deep of fame-and promptly became intoxicated. He announced that he was preparing to graft new limbs on infantile-paralysis victims. Soon, he declared, he would show preliminary examples of similar radical grafts, including a goat with donkey's legs, a sheep with dog's legs, a chicken with a pigeon's head, a dove with rabbit's ears and a rabbit with dove's wings. No gonkey, shog, or picken turned up, but Lanza did give newsmen a brief, none...