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Show Science Wins Victory Over Freak of Birth A successful operation on what might be culled Incomplete Siamese twins ha been reported to the medical medi-cal Journal, Lancet, of London, by Sir John Wand Sutton. An account of the case was sent to Sir John, himself him-self a consulting surgeon at the Middlesex Mid-dlesex hospital, by u medical correspondent corre-spondent in India. Attached to a Hindu Hin-du boy baby at birth was a parasitic "brother" possessed of the full complement com-plement of limbs, but minus head, lungs and heart. A month after birth the parasite was growing rapidly bo that the parents sought surgical aid for the relief of the child. The operation oper-ation was performed and when lust heard from the child was well and developing normally. Such cases. Raid the ISrltlsh 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. |
