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...having the heart inclining to the right, the other to the left. Other organs were similarly transposed. Their breastbones were fused. The twins shared some rib cartilage and other tissues. So far as the surgeons could tell in advance, their biggest problem was going to be separating the large liver which the twins shared...
...rays had not told all. The one liver had to be divided where it was thickest, three inches in diameter. Worse yet, the anxious doctors found that the twins' chest cavities were connected and contained a single sac which held both their hearts. The hearts were abnormally long and crossed over, so that each beat partly in the other twin's body. When the hearts were separated, there was no room for them in the tiny, undeveloped chest cavities...
Died. Daniel Frisch, 52, Palestine-born president of the Zionist Organization of America and a General Zionist world leader; after an operation for a liver ailment; in Manhattan. A retired investment broker and onetime executive of an Indianapolis salvage firm, Frisch campaigned for strong ties between the U.S. and Israel...
Died. Dr. George Richards Minot, 64, Harvard professor of medicine (1928-48) whose interest in diet, enforced by his own diabetes, led him i) to the discovery that eating liver helped people with pernicious anemia and 2) to a one-third share of the 1934 Nobel Prize for Medicine; after long illness; in Brookline, Mass...
...received numerous honors for his work with the liver cure. In 1928, he was given an honorary Doctorate of of Science by Harvard University and, during the same year, the Association of American Physicians gave him the Kober gold medal. In this country, he has been awarded the John Scott medal of the city of Philadelphia and the gold medal of the Humane Society of Massachusetts...