BOY AND GIRL JOINED
SKIN GRAFTING! MEASURE. WASHINGTON, Jan. 3. A 16-year-old boy allowed science to make him a .Siamese', twin to-day to enable a "13-year-old girl to become a normal-being. An ISin. tube of flesh literally made John Melvin Bonner and Clara Howard one individual. The strange opera lion, linking the two negro children, if successful, will enable surgeons to graft new skin on the body of the little girl to place flesh •seared by: a fire in North Carolina more than a year ago. The flames left the body a mass of sear tissue, so extensive that her right arm was joined,-to her body. Surgeons were .ahKff.'tp replace a portion of the seared'Askin in grafting
operations, but tlio transfer of skin necessary to festiK'e her to normal required desp<ei‘a|V, measures—linking her with a Skuirdonor willing to permit himself to be joined to her, to permit his blood .stream to join with her to enable os of flesh. , .
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Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 14, 23 March 1938, Page 2
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159BOY AND GIRL JOINED Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 14, 23 March 1938, Page 2
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