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Show Science Wins Victory Over Freak of Birth A successful operation on what might lie culled incomplete Siamese twins has been reported to the medical medi-cal Journal, Lancet, of London, by Sir John r.lauti Sutton. An account of the r.tse was sent to Sir .lul.n, him-ftf him-ftf a consulting surgeon at t tit .Middlesex .Mid-dlesex liospital. by a medical correspondent corre-spondent in India. Attached to a Hindu Hin-du boy VjI'y at birth was a parasitic "hi'fier'' possessed of the full complement com-plement of limbs, but minus bead, lungs and heart. A month after birth the parasite was growing rapidly so that the fU'ents sought surgical aid for the relief of the child. The operation oper-ation was performed and when last heard from the child was well and developing normally. Such cases, said the British surgeon, should encourage surgeons generally to separate convoluted con-voluted twins and spare the fully developed de-veloped individual not only a life of bondage, hut the Ignominy of being exhibited ex-hibited in public shows. |