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Last week, until Lucio was buried, Simplicio showed no bad effects of a second, plastic operation which gave him a rectal outlet of his own. Then his vitality wavered. Doctors gave him a blood transfusion. Next thing the doctors knew was that Simplicio had a full-fledged attack of cerebrospinal meningitis, a germ disease apparently unrelated to any symptoms which the doctors had heretofore noticed in either of the Siamese twins, before or after they were separated. Of that cerebrospinal meningitis, Simplicio Godino, only adult ever severed from his twin, last week died...
Genitoplasty. Dr. Young told how a boy who was born without an anus acquired one through Dr. Young's bold plastic surgery. Such children, if they survive, must empty their bowels through a "colostomy" hole in their abdominal walls. Dr. Young's patient, now a college senior, functions normally. Other patients of Dr. Young were apparent hermaphrodites whom he made into sexually functioning men or women according to the dominance of male or female hormones. One girl "only shaves once a week" since Dr. Young removed a virilifying tumor from one of her ovaries. Another case...
...self-portrait of the only son of the late Captain Robert Scott and the celebrated English sculptor who is now Lady Hilton Young. From his father, who died returning from the South Pole, Peter Scott evidently inherited a determination to be strenuous, and from his mother a plastic talent beyond the ordinary. His book contains reproductions of 51 of his oil paintings, 16 of them in color, and a youthful gunning testament drawn largely from "my wildfowling diary." Few people have painted anything so well as Peter Scott paints the birds he knows so well. Grey lags, pink-footed geese...
...hundreds of carloads. But the building industry is the big market, Presdwood being particularly adaptable to modernistic design. The Masonite house was one of the architectural high spots of Chicago's Century of Progress, was inspected by 3,000,000 people. Latest Masonite product is a laminated plastic, pressed innumerable sheets of thin Presdwood. An addition to the Laurel, Miss, plant to turn out this plastic will be ready early next year...
...Pontalite" is a new plastic, known chemically as methyl methacrylate polymer, which is as clear as optical glass, only half as heavy as common glass, flexible, non-shattering, able to withstand tensions of over four tons per square inch. It can be sawed, cut, drilled, polished, cast into molds. "The transparency, brilliance, strength and permanence of Pontalite are unusual, and the absence of color permits fabrication into delicate tinted shades."-Dr. Harry Robert Dittmar of E. I. du Pont de Nemours...