Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hormone Surgery. A hormone, secreted by a gland at the base of the brain, was discovered by Milton 0. Lee of Harvard. It tends to lower combustion rate of tissue. This faculty might, he suggested, be employed to combat tissue destruction caused by the hormone of the thyroid gland, obviate the necessity for many surgical operations...
...Pared Brain. Dr. Walter Edward Dandy (Johns Hopkins) announced that he had found that two-thirds of a man's brain could be pared away without damaging intellectual powers. He reported cases where he had removed both frontal lobes in removing a tumor. Said he: '"To retain unimpaired mental powers a human needs only his midbrain and his left hemisphere...
...Sonnenberg, wrestler whose favorite "hold" is a football tackle, billed as champion of the world in some states: a bout with Henri De Glane, French heavyweight, who left the ring bleeding profusely from both ears, with his chin cut, several broken ribs, concussion of the brain...
Other suggestions: 1) The new sickness is multiple neuritis (which almost always follows delirium tremens). 2) It is epidemic encephalitis (a brain inflammation which swept Japan last fall...
There was on view last week far too much for any one brain to appreciate at a single view: six Rembrandt portraits and eight drawings; five Goyas; eight Monets; 20 Courbets; nine Corots (all figure paintings) ; eleven Manets; five Cezannes; 22 Chinese paintings; 820 Japanese prints; 247 pieces of Japanese lacquer; 182 European prints and etchings?critics grew dizzy, ran out of adjectives. What was obvious to everyone was that this collection for all its beauty and value did not represent, like the Morgan and Widener collections or the Huntington collection in California, the purchases of an intelligent man obediently...