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Show Turtle Has Neck Trouble; Operation Yields Cyst SAN FRANCISCO. Napoleon, the turtle, stuck his neck out here Jfor a tonsillectomy. There was danger that the big green reptile at San Francisco's Steinhart aquarium would become but a hollow shell, for every time he stuck his neck out he got a lump in it and couldn't eat. He shriveled up between decks to a scant 58 pounds, so Dr. Wilbert Chapman, curator of fishes for the California Academy of Scienc?s. ordered or-dered an operation. A few swift incisions, a tied artery ar-tery and the whole thing was over in 15 minutes. Napoleon showed signs of immediate recovery. The tonsillectomy, not the turtle, was mock. The "surgeons" got credit cred-it for a cyst. |