Show Boy Is Joined to Girl Girt as Siamese Twin As Surgeons Seek to Replace Her Flesh WASHINGTON Jan 8 UP UPA UPA UP- UP A year old boy allowed science to make him a Siamese twin to today today today to- to day to enable a year old girl to become a normal human being An inch 18 tube of ot flesh made John Melvin Bonner and Clara Howard one Individual The operation operation operation op op- op- op linking the two negro children if It successful will wUl enable surgeons to graft new skin on the body of the girl to replace flesh seared by a fire In North Carolina more than a year ago Dr Robert L. L Moran said the children were doing well He hoped that Clara would emerge from it a normal human being The girl girt was seared by the fire Her flesh was burned so 80 desperately desperately desperately desper desper- that doctors said eaid she couldn't recover She did re recover recover recover re- re cover but the flames left her body a mass of scar tissue so extensive extensive extensive exten exten- sive that her right arm arm was joined to her body Surgeons were able to replace a portion of the seared skin in grafting operations But the major transfer of skin necessary to restore her to normalcy re required required required re- re linking her with a a. skin donor to permit his blood stream to join with hers and enable a graft of 24 2 ounces of flesh Young Bonner volunteered Since last November the two children children chil chil- dren have been in emergency hospital hospital hos hos- pital preparing for the operation Surgeons slit his side in liz an 18 inch cut rolled the flesh into a tube and allowed the tube to hang loosely from his body connected to his blood stream only at its extremities Under a local anesthetic the two children watched the opera opera- tion One end of Johns John's flesh tube was severed from his body An Incision was made in the littie little little lit lit- tle tie girls girl's elbow The fresh tube was WM inserted and th their ir blood streams intermingled Swathed in bandages and adhesive adhesive adhesive ad ad- tape the children will be confined to bed until early next week Then they will be allowed to leave their beds but still will willbe willbe willbe be joined by the tube of flesh Perhaps In a few weeks if the operation is successful and Johns John's flesh joins that of the little girl Dr Moran will cut him loose r |