Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor Albert Benjamin Chandler, Kentucky's happy man, is no mere country clown. A swift and educated brain, a vaulting ambition and one of the sharpest instincts in the U. S. lie behind his automatic incandescent smile, his hot-palmed handshake...
Died. Dr. Harvey Gushing, 70, world's No. 1 brain surgeon, author of Pulitzer-Prizewinning Life of Sir William Osler (1925), father-in-law of the President's eldest son, James Roosevelt; of a heart attack; in New Haven, Conn. Bright-eyed, white-haired Harvey Cushing's slight & stooped figure was gigantic in neurology (see p. 71). He taught and worked at Johns Hopkins, Harvard and Yale, perfected almost single-handed the techniques of many brain and nerve operations. Caring little for relaxation, less for social affairs, he labored phenomenally, sometimes spent eight hours on an operation...
...textbook treatment of disease, but to a great temple of experiment, where even sober trustees are fired by the high task of ending body's tyranny over mind, To 45-year-old Dr. Putnam, as to the other bold, competent physicians in the Institute, the study of brain processes and the treatment of brain ills is a "bread-&-butter science." Deeply concerned with detours of nerve paths and battles of brain cells, he knows that a long chain of simple injections, or the sharp bite of a surgeon's knife into grey brain flesh may miraculously humanize...
...lingering, incurable shaking palsy; 3) epilepsy (known to modernists as "convulsions"). Meanwhile, within the cheerful green walls of the Institute, turbanned patients continue to wheel their chairs through sunny wards, as 100 experimenters work on problems such as mirror-writing, abnormalities of the senses, hydrocephalus (water-on-the-brain), brain physiology and anatomy...
...Brain Waves. Chief of the Institute's brain-wave station is young, German-born Dr. Paul Frederick Adam Hoefer, who came from Boston with Dr. Putnam. Close kin to a sensitive short-wave radio is the electroencephalograph. Tiny lead electrodes are pasted to the patient's scalp. From the electrodes fine, threadlike wires lead to the machine which detects, through scalp and skull, faint electric brain impulses. A connected drum and ink recorder charts patterns. Normal frequency is ten shallow, rippling, regular waves a second. Abnormal brain waves, often running to 25 a second, show up as irregular...