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Show Ttonden of Ihe Knife. "Modern surgery," said a practk tloner, "gives men new eyes, even robbing rabbits for that purpose with success. It gives them new blood, tapplug to that eud the veins of some fellow man; It takes out his ribs and parts of his lungs and spine If he does not like them: it gives him, on occasion, a new larynx to talk nltb, a new skin to persplie through; It cuts out his tongue or his thigh bone, and even stretches his nerves to get the kinks out of them; straightens his crooked legs and provides him with good live tendons from a dog when his own have suffered suf-fered misfortune, and it makes him a new new, a new mouth, a new kneecap or a new ear if he wkhes. It wout be long before it may inako Mm a Frankenstein, If the progress or science continues." faxlwUL phut IVcu. |