Medicine: Virility Transplanted

Wherever the Germans retreat, they leave land mines behind. And wherever there are land mines (particularly the specially developed "castrator mine") some Allied soldiers are sure to suffer the most inhumane of all war wounds. Genital injuries have driven hundreds of men to suicide in World Wars I and II.

A freckled, red-haired Red Army surgeon named Anatole Frumkin, of Moscow, has developed an international reputation by successfully repairing hundreds of these once hopeless wounds. Dr. Frumkin jokingly says he now gets so many inquiring letters from abroad that he could start the world's biggest mail-order business.

For reconstructing external organs, Dr. Frumkin...

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