Word: box
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suppose there is a certain madness in seeking patterns in mathematics and language [Sept. 17]. Still, who can deny the beauty of some of it? Witness: Palindromic sentence: A man, a plan, a canal, Panama! Or a short sensible sentence using all 26 letters: Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs...
...morphine-type drug. Then, during the last three months of his illness, the tormented man found relief. His doctors tried a brand-new type of electrical treatment, and he discovered that he could switch off the worst of his pain simply by pressing a button on a little box in his shirt pocket...
Press-the-button relief depends on the fact that much perception of pain depends, in turn, on electrical nerve impulses passing through the thalamus, a junction box below the base of the brain. If the circuitry in the thalamus is interrupted or disrupted, even the in tractable pain of cancer may be allayed. The Ervin-Mark technique requires drilling holes in the skull (under a general anesthetic), then using elaborate stereoscopic instruments to place four electrodes at selected points in the brain, two of them in the thalamus itself. The electrodes are left in place and cause no pain...
...minutes to an hour, the pain relief lasted as long as six to eight hours and gave him a night of uninterrupted, pain-free sleep - an invaluable benefit. During the last six weeks of his life he used only a little codeine and relied heavily on his pain box...
When Cambridge police arrested the trio, they found a vending machine, coin box, several screw drivers and a glove in the car, Breen reported...