Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brain is immediately involved in epilepsy. Suspected are spasms of blood vessels and brain tissue. Suspected are toxins and chemicals. Suspected are deformities and scars. Bromides serve as the commonest treatment for epilepsy...
Main reliance of the Davis-Gibbs work is the recently recognized fact that the brain pulsates. When it does so it produces a faint electric current which can be detected and registered on a chart by means of electrodes applied to ear and skull...
...brain of a normal person, relaxed and with eyes closed, beats eight to 20 times a second and produces ten to 50 millionths of a volt on each beat. On a chart those beats show up as a fast succession of small waves...
...year-old son is taking oboe lessons, in training for the local high school had heard stories that oboe-playing endangered the brain, but when I asked our local family physician about it, he said he had never heard of it. and could not see how the damage would come about. Now in your last issue (March 25, p. 50) you speak of "the doctors treatises which warn all oboe-players against congestion in the head." W ill you please advise me whether this statement is facetious, and if not. what is your authority for it? I know that...
...Leonard Albert Brigstock, onetime petty officer in His Majesty's Navy, sentenced to hang for slitting the throat of Chief Petty Office Deggan on the gunnery training ship Marshal Soult. Crusader Van der Elst assembled 65,000 signatures to a petition for a reprieve; offered to hire a brain surgeon to prove that Brigstock was insane. Nonetheless the trap was due to drop under Brigstock at 9 a. m. one day last week in South London's Wandsworth Prison...