Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Wilder Graves Penfield, 41, the star currently in the ascendant at McGill, trained at Princeton, Oxford (Rhodes scholar), Johns Hopkins. He studied under choleric Brain Surgeon Walter Edward Dandy of Johns Hopkins, interned under choleric Brain Surgeon Harvey Williams Gushing of Harvard, rounded out his training in London (with Surgeon Sir Percy Sargent, Neurologists Gordon Morgan Holmes and Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson). A final polishing at Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital, which Philanthropist Edward Stephen Harkness helped to endow with Neurological Institute, and teaching practice at Columbia University-then Dr. Penfield was ripe...
...University of Amsterdam has awarded Dr. Harvey Cushing, Moseley Professor of Surgery, the degree of honorary Doctor of Medicine, according to a cable received by the noted brain surgeon last night...
...seemed to be obsessed with boys." Larkin, an officer, his own friend, warned him against the sea. "You must either give in or break away. In my 20-odd years at sea I have been "disarmed and stripped naked by her. ... It eats into the heart, it reduces the brain to a sort of pulp." At Alexandria, still only 13. Fearon watches a cancan dance, fascinated, repulsed, wavering. His return a day later results in his catching syphilis. He would drown himself, but he is too weak to leap overboard. The end comes when the captain himself, sympathetic, smothers...
...lungs are expanded because the ribs rise & fall and the diaphragm ascends & descends. The muscles which operate the ribs and diaphragm are controlled, through the agency of nerves, by the respiratory centre in the lower brain, which needs carbon dioxide for stimulation. (Infantile paralysis often injures the spinal cord nerves which go to muscles used in respiration. In certain cases the injured nerves may regenerate, while the victim's life is maintained in a respirator...
...evolutionary futility of the gradually disappearing lungfish looks to the Anglican priest like a crack in the Divine Plan. Joel does his best to widen the crack by comparing Man's brain to Kamongo's lung, both ingenious developments, neither leading anywhere much. Joel likens life to whirlpools in a stream of energy, likens the living matter of cells and bodies to inorganic rubbish whirlpool-caught. The gyroscopic adjustment of the whirlpool to obstacles in its course gives an illusion of intelligent purpose to the rubbish it holds together. Really, all the purpose animating the rubbish is to spin...