Word: plastics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington last week a Negro boy and girl giggled in ignorant embarrassment because a plastic surgeon was about ready to bind them closer than wedlock. A year ago Clara Howard, 13, emptied a lapful of peanut shells into an open fire. Her apron caught fire and she was hospitalized with terrible first degree burns. When she was discharged she had no skin left on her torso, arms and neck. Scars held the flesh of her arms to the flesh of her sides. She could not turn her head because the lower part of her chin had grown to her chest...
Later, as Clara grows stronger and older, plastic surgeons may take bits from this apron of skin, transplant them to other parts of her scarred body as islands from which new skin may grow and spread. Then, years hence, if all goes well, Clara Howard, with arms and head freed, will have a skin that is scarred and puckered but whole. John too will be permanently scarred but this thought did not deter him from volunteering. His mother, who takes roomers, promised to reward him with $20 and a new coat. But last week she took sick...
...Readers Raymond and Chittenden ponder the often cited fact that for 98 years photography has been taking over the representational function which once belonged solely to the graphic and plastic arts. Let all readers reflect that prejudice may prevent pleasure in Art's other and no less important properties - color, texture, form...
Cases. In his treatise on genital abnormalities Dr. Young gives the medical histories of 55 cases, and the plastic surgical operations which he performed on as many of them as he could to make them at least look like normal men or women. One hermaphrodite, who passed as a Negress, told him: "I have derived great pleasure from, many sexual affairs with women, and never with my two husbands." Dr. Young assured her-him that it would be easy to make her into a man, but only at the cost of her female configuration. The hermaphrodite: "If you did that...
Another hermaphrodite refused decisive plastic surgery because he made a living by self-exhibition in a circus...