Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dominions and colonies, from the U. S. and from every country in Europe, Asia, South America, even from the larger States of India and tribes of British Africa, all thought and spoke and made last things ready for the great event of the morrow. London was like a gigantic brain, every cell of which was focussed on one central thought. Like parts of a vast body conditioned by that brain, the world-wide Empire pulsed and stirred to the same thought-Coronation, England's 37th since William the Conqueror and the beginning of modern British history...
...like influenza. His great achievement, accomplished at the Rockefeller Institute, was to grow viruses in tissue cultures. This permits quantity production of unadulterated virus, so far chiefly useful for further research. Dr. Rivers latest work has been on a new disease, lymphocytic choriomeningitis, which attacks the spinal cord and brain...
Matron. The principal portion (cerebrum) of the brain consists of a left and a right hemisphere. On their surfaces these hemispheres are colored grey, in their interiors white. Textbooks say that thinking takes place in the grey matter, that the white interior matter merely transmits sensations to the grey cortex and carries instructions from it to the voluntary parts of the body...
...Pittsburgh lives a woman who had the entire right side of her brain removed on account of a tumor, Dr. Stuart N. Rowe of Pittsburgh told his fellow psychiatrists last week. Instead of dying or at least suffering paralysis of her left side, the woman survived and now competently directs a large household. Her memory is not so good as it once was, but she does | not lose the thread of magazine continued stories. All this is most unorthodox according to the hitherto accepted principles of brain physiology. But to Dr. Leland B. Alford of St. Louis, also...
...loss of large portions of grey and white matter without serious physical impairment has led Dr. Alford to search for a comparatively small "core of intelligence" in the brain. He found it, he told the Association last week, in "a quite small area, lying posteriorly near the base of the brain." In right-handed individuals this core is located in the left half of the brain; in left-handed ones, in the right hemisphere. Said Dr. Alford: "This area is responsible, when injured, for clouding, confusion and dementia. No other part of the brain, when injured, produces similar impairment...