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Innovator: Toronto urologist Dr. Mel Sutton worked painstakingly for three years to perfect the microscoop he displays here. The delicate surgical tool offers new hope to men who've been sterilized by vasectomy operations, but now want families, by taking the uncertainly out of the reversal operation and making it an easier task for surgeons.
Innovator: Toronto urologist Dr. Mel Sutton worked painstakingly for three years to perfect the microscoop he displays here. The delicate surgical tool offers new hope to men who've been sterilized by vasectomy operations, but now want families, by taking the uncertainly out of the reversal operation and making it an easier task for surgeons.

Innovator: Toronto urologist Dr. Mel Sutton worked painstakingly for three years to perfect the microscoop he displays here. The delicate surgical tool offers new hope to men who've been sterilized by vasectomy operations, but now want families, by taking the uncertainly out of the reversal operation and making it an easier task for surgeons.

Date9/12/1981
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Magnifying spectacles were worn by surgeon during delicate transplant operation as he sliced away corneal tissue that was only tiny fractions of an in(...)
Magnifying spectacles were worn by surgeon during delicate transplant operation as he sliced away corneal tissue that was only tiny fractions of an in(...)
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Murnaghan is in the midst of one of the delicate and dangerous spinal operations he will assist in today, under the supervision of orthopedic staff su(...)
Murnaghan is in the midst of one of the delicate and dangerous spinal operations he will assist in today, under the supervision of orthopedic staff su(...)
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Eyelids are clamped open by surgical clamps to prevent patient blinking while surgeons cut away two-thirds of the old cornea. The Patient remains cons(...)
Eyelids are clamped open by surgical clamps to prevent patient blinking while surgeons cut away two-thirds of the old cornea. The Patient remains cons(...)
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Ready to roll: Alain Sutton, Toro's director of Canadian operations, shows the company's new snow blower, one of many products with which Toro intends to dazzle the Canadian market to the extent of some $35 million in sales per year
Ready to roll: Alain Sutton, Toro's director of Canadian operations, shows the company's new snow blower, one of many products with which Toro intends to dazzle the Canadian market to the extent of some $35 million in sales per year
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Tools to finish the job. This young lady performs the delicate task o fmeasuring the pitch of screw threads in the gauge-testing laboratories
Tools to finish the job. This young lady performs the delicate task o fmeasuring the pitch of screw threads in the gauge-testing laboratories
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Edible bargains: John Pander, senior vice-president of retail operations for Dominion Stores, displays the wares at his firm's first Best For less store in the Toronto area which opens today
Edible bargains: John Pander, senior vice-president of retail operations for Dominion Stores, displays the wares at his firm's first Best For less store in the Toronto area which opens today
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The domestic physician: and traveller's medical companion: compiled from the practice of the most eminent physicians and surgeons viz. Sir Astley Cooper, Sir Henry Halford, Drs. Baillie, Latham ... Birckbeck, &c. &c. for parents and heads of families, for conductors of large establishments; for travellers, &c.
The domestic physician: and traveller's medical companion: compiled from the practice of the most eminent physicians and surgeons viz. Sir Astley Cooper, Sir Henry Halford, Drs. Baillie, Latham ... Birckbeck, &c. &c. for parents and heads of families, for conductors of large establishments; for travellers, &c.
1838
Beefed up: Canada Packers president Valentine Stock, right, says branded and processed products offer potential for higher profit than traditional slaughter and meat packing operations
Beefed up: Canada Packers president Valentine Stock, right, says branded and processed products offer potential for higher profit than traditional slaughter and meat packing operations
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Free University of Toronto offers 15 courses ranging from witchcraft to conversational Yiddish in its second year of operation. Here Dr. Jerry Caplan,(...)
Free University of Toronto offers 15 courses ranging from witchcraft to conversational Yiddish in its second year of operation. Here Dr. Jerry Caplan,(...)
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Keeping options open: Leaning on a jeep his company built, William Carroll, president of American Motors (Canada) Inc., says all the reports about a huge Quebec automotive operation by AMC mystify him. But he's open to any offers.
Keeping options open: Leaning on a jeep his company built, William Carroll, president of American Motors (Canada) Inc., says all the reports about a huge Quebec automotive operation by AMC mystify him. But he's open to any offers.
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Doctors broke his neck deliberately in a delicate operation to help correct a painful arthritis condition in his spine
Doctors broke his neck deliberately in a delicate operation to help correct a painful arthritis condition in his spine
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Shamiza Mohamed of Guyana, who's only 19 months old, has had a delicate operation on her eye, designed to save her sight, at the Hospital for Sick Chi(...)
Shamiza Mohamed of Guyana, who's only 19 months old, has had a delicate operation on her eye, designed to save her sight, at the Hospital for Sick Chi(...)
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