Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discussed the matter with our country family doctor. [When] he produced a pickled human brain, I was thrilled ... It attracted me as did the gramophone, the camera, the automobile...
...Operations & Mental Cases. With physical chilling after a lytic cocktail, a patient's temperature can be dropped to 80° F. or even lower. His metabolism is slowed so sharply that even his brain needs little oxygen. French surgeons using the Laborit technique have performed hundreds of operations (for everything from heart disease and advanced cancer to a ruptured appendix) on patients rated as poor risks for ordinary anesthesia. Laborit reports no cases of surgical shock, and a good cure rate...
Painstakingly, Dr. Riley and his colleagues sought for causes and cures of what they named dysautonomia (disorder of the automatic nervous system). From operations on the living and autopsies on children who died of infections, they ruled out adrenal tumors or physical damage to the brain. So far, they have found no cause, but there is no doubt that the disease runs in families, and susceptibility may be transmitted by both parents through a recessive gene...
Inevitably, the acted scenes contain some purple-prose trills. The crusty voice of Judith Anderson as Carmen gasps: "I cannot live a lie . . . Free I was born and free I want to die." Joseph Gotten as Canio in Pagliacci moans: "To have to act, act, when my brain whirls in an agony of madness! . . . Change into grins your sobs and suffering, change into a leer your sighs and your tears." Dennis King as Rigoletto shouts: "Unarmed though I be, I'll kill you, I warn you!" But the familiar music (in familiar performances by Rise Stevens, Jussi Bjoerling, Leonard...
...Captain continues his search, he decides to present a panel show, "Brain's trust," to entertain the Army base. Made up of local oddities, the panel includes a love triangle composed of artist, wife, and rival. When the question of marriage is raised, these three breaks up the show, washing the soiled linen of their marriage in public, while Sim tries unsuccessfully to shift the discussion to bottle-flys and cows...