Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than painting. He prefers the 12th Century masters who used large pieces of glass in the primary colors, simply juxtaposed, rather than designers of the 13th Century, who broke up their glowing blues and reds in complex patterns at the risk of purplish vibrations of light. "Purple addles your brain," Henry Willet says...
...medical school took out: 1) her lungs, to verify the pneumonia which was the immediate cause of her death; 2) an ovary to examine the tumor which mysteriously developed a few weeks ago, caused her to waste away, reduced her resistance to the pneumonia; and 3) her strange, ineffective brain. Then she was buried with a fresh corsage of gardenias and the crystal necklace which her constant fiance, a jewelry salesman named James Burns, gave her. Her mother, Mrs. Peter Miley, whose second husband, like her first, is a structural iron worker, had kept a meticulous diary of her daughter...
...height of an attack of St. Louis' encephalitis a victim's brain is inflamed. He has a high fever, a bad headache and becomes irrational. About half of last week's sufferers were lethargic-drowsy and sleepy. The other half were hyperkinetic. They involuntarily jerked fingers, arms, legs...
Since no one knows how the St. Louis (or other types of encephalitis) is contracted, no one knows how to prevent its spread. As the result of their 1933 experience St. Louis doctors generally feed (give injections of) concentrated glucose solution to sufferers. This is believed to reduce brain inflammation as well as build up a patient's strength. In four or five days the fever usually abates. The patient then is given blood from a survivor of the disease-by direct transfusion, by a hypodermic injection into the muscle of a buttock, or in the form of blood...
Finishing touch to "curing me of my epoch" was added when Tony gave Mabel Dodge a dose of the Mexican drug peyote as a cure for dysentery. Awake all night, a clairvoyant vision showed her that "all this learning in the brain, and never in the blood was ended." In this mood even Maurice provoked "a tender, soft, sorry feeling"-though she did not relax her determination to kick him out. To make his going easier (for herself), she and Tony absented themselves at a Corn Dance. On their return Tony said, "I comin' here to this tepee tonight...