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Show Science Wins Victory Over Freak of Birth A successful operation on what might be called incomplete Siamese twins has been reported to the medical medi-cal journal, Lancet, of London, by Sir John liland-Sutton. An account of the case was sent to Sir John, himself him-self a consulting surgeon at t lie Middlesex Mid-dlesex hospital, by a medical correspondent corre-spondent in India. Auuched to a Hindu Hin-du boy baby at birth was a parasitic "brother" possessed of the full complement com-plement of limbs, hut minus head, lungs and heart A month after birth the parasite was growing rapidly so that the parents sought surgical nid 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 con-jointed con-jointed twins and spare the fully developed de-veloped individual not only a life of bondage, but the ignominy of being exhibited ex-hibited in public shows, i |
