Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late Dr. Harvey Cushing, the foremost brain surgeon of his era, declined an invitation to join the faculty of the Yale Medical School on the grounds that its hospital was "no damn good." Five years later Cushing came to Harvard as Professor of Surgery and remained in that post until 1932, when he reached Harvard's retirement age of 62. When Dr. Thomas F. Fulton, Professor of Physiology at the Yale Medical School, heard of his retirement, he rushed to Boston to offer him a professorship in Neurology at Yale. Cushing immediately accepted...
Probably the outstanding TV casualty of the night was Univac-the giant electronic brain built by Remington Rand and used by CBS to project early returns into estimates of final results. Everybody remembers how Univac predicted a Republican landslide early in the 1952 presidential election and how CBS kept the prediction dark. As a result, Univac was scooped by the returns themselves...
...hours later the machine completely reversed its field. Commentator Charles Collingwood, who nursemaided the mechanical brain both in 1952 and last week, says: "Suddenly Univac said the Republicans were winning the House. We didn't know what to do. Should we change the machine? After all, last time the experts were wrong. I decided to stick with the machine." This particular error turned out to be caused by human frailty: a teletype operator had transposed the Democratic and Republican figures...
...inhabitants believed in spirits and magic spells, although they were Moslems. Laye is firmly convinced that his mother had magic powers, tells how even the witch doctors feared her and the crocodiles refused to attack her. When he left home to go to school, she gave him a magic brain potion to sip before he began to study. It consisted of honey mixed with the water used to wash Koran texts from prayer boards. The stuff must have worked because Laye wound up first in his class. His childhood memoir is eloquent proof that even gifted young Africans have...
Doctors have learned to make no rash claims about treatments for multiple sclerosis. This baffling disease of unknown origin afflicts an estimated 250,000 in the U.S. with varying degrees of incapacity, usually in the legs and arms, often involving speech and vision. Damaging the nerve sheaths in the brain and spinal column, multiple sclerosis may take many forms, from a quickly fatal attack to a 30-year lingering illness punctuated by long periods of relative freedom. Histamine, vitamins and a variety of drugs have aroused high hopes in some researchers and their patients, only to prove disappointing...