Word: braine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...important people are subscribing. I am old, retired, and unimportant. I have all the time in the world to read all the magazines and newspapers in the world. But I don't. I take my TIME and save my time. It is comforting to find that an old brain is not so cracked but what it still knows a really good thing when it sees one. What is good enough for the Senators is good enough...
...appears at the University of Vienna to lecture to classes in neurology and psychiatry. When he enters the lecture room the students salute him by standing. In a soft, kindly voice and with simple terms he explains that in paresis the spirochetes attack first the meninges (covering of the brain). Later they ulcerate the front lobes of the brain. Paralysis results. Attacks of malaria seem to cure the ulcers. A paretic patient can never be completely cured...
...Bared Brains. At Harvard Medical School, Dr. Walter Bradford Cannon with Dr. Philip Bard pared off various parts from the brains of animals and studied what functions were lost and what remained. They discovered that emotional activity is controlled by a very small section in the optic thalamus. This is either of a pair of oblong masses of grey matter situated in the inner recesses of the brain. It is the most primitive part of the brain and is common in all vertebrates from fishes to man. The higher thought centres of the brain keep this primitive focus under control...
Alcohol roused the noisiest discussion. "The one fact that hits back at the legislation [on alcohol] is the fundamental physiological law, as demonstrated by physiological chemistry, that alcohol is a normal constituent of the brain tissue," stated Dr. Charles Alfred Lee Reed, University of Cincinnati professor emeritus of gynecology and onetime (1900-1901) president of the American Medical Association. He went on: "When this supply runs low there is a natural demand for alcohol as such." His declaration was reply to two papers on the subject, which had just been presented...
...Into this mechanical mind" said Dr. Bush, "can be fed the conditions of a mathematical problem too complex for the human brain to master, and it will promptly grind out the answer and write it down, as efficiently as a machine takes in lumber and chemicals and produces finished boxes of matches...