Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collectively represented a definite disease of the inner ear caused by infection or degeneration. The French physician could do nothing to cure the disease which, upon his death the following year, his colleagues called Ménière's Disease. Nor could his successors do much until the perfection of brain surgery 20 years ago. Brain surgeons stopped the symptoms simply by cutting the acoustic nerve and disconnecting the diseased ear from the brain. Such an operation, however, resulted unavoidably in total deafness. For this reason most surgeons were reluctant to perform...
...performs two functions. It collects sounds and it keeps track of the body's posture. Sensations of sound and of balance reach the brain along separate but intimately packed fibres of the acoustic nerve, a soft strand the diameter of a slate pencil. In Ménière's Disease only the balancing mechanism of the ear is impaired and all that is essential is to cut only the fibres which conduct balancing sensations. Brain surgeons, like exalted telephone repairmen selecting particular lines in a many-stranded cable, tried with little success?to pick out the balancing fibres of the acoustic...
Last week Dr. Walter Edward Dandy, choleric neurologist who became Johns Hopkins' brain surgeon after Choleric Brain Surgeon Harvey Gushing left that institution for Harvard, announced that he could pick out the proper fibres to cut. This meant that henceforth a victim of Ménière's Disease can walk out of Johns Hopkins Hospital with the greatest of assurance and dignity. He can enjoy hearing the clicking of his heels in the corridors and the voice of the cashier telling him how big his bill...
...time to be caught by the outbreak of the War. As an officer of Turkish artillery, he expected to be called up, was prepared to go. But significant incidents and rumors soon showed him how the wind was blowing. While he was waiting for the storm he racked his brain to find a possible shelter. On Musa Dagh, seagirt mountain overlooking the village, he found it. When the expected order came for all Armenians to evacuate the valley, Bagradian had made his plans. Night before the Turks came to clear them out, 5,000 Armenian villagers moved...
...mucous membranes of the nose and throat, and suspected that it might exist along the olfactory nerve. Not until last year did Dr. Maurice Brodie of Manhattan and Dr. Arthur Roland Elvidge of McGill University discover that the virus did travel up the olfactory nerve to the brain, then to the spine...