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Though all major U.S. medical centers have some facilities for treating disorders of the nervous system, until now only Columbia University and the University of Illinois have had neurological institutes where all the specialties have been unified under one roof. Last week, with the dedication of the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, the U.S. got its third such organization. The building bulged with $400,000 worth of sophisticated electronic devices...
Deep in the Brain. With eight oscilloscopes attached to electroencephalographs, doctors at Barrow can see brain waves the moment they are generated. X-ray pictures of the brain's arteries can be taken from both front and side at half-second intervals. To locate a defective part of the brain that is causing epileptic seizures, electrodes must sometimes be delicately inserted deep into the brain itself, so the institute has an elaborate device for placing the electrodes with three-dimensional, pinpoint accuracy. For the most refined diagnosis in some patients, these electrodes will be used for stimulating parts...
...Green discussed the idea with Julia Barrow, wife of Charles A. Barrow, a former machine-tool maker. She had an incurable brain tumor, and shortly before her death in 1959, she asked her husband: "Why don't you go ahead and give Dr. Green his institute?" Barrow came out of retirement, donated more than $1,000,000 of his own money and raised $2,000,000 more to found the Barrow Neurological Institute...
...staff, and we have no 'firsts' to talk about yet," says Dr. Green. "But we expect to have a number of firsts before too long." He well may. Britain's famed Neurologist Macdonald Critchley, accustomed to working on pinched budgets, helped to dedicate the Barrow equipment and said, with understandable envy: "This is a dream institute...
Moving from the jungle was a native with elephantiasis . . . pushing a rude wheelbarrow before him. In the barrow rested his scrotum, a monstrous growth that . . . weighed more than 70 pounds and tied him a prisoner to his barrow...