Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group for whom most can be done, and least is now being done, according to Putnam and Hood, are a majority of the brain-injury victims, i.e., those who have been crippled by such things as blows, encephalitis, or a sustained high fever in infancy. Their plight is often worse, in a way, than that of the mentally retarded, because they know they are different and yet cannot help their failures and seizures...
Drugs & Understanding. Bronx-born, California-trained Psychologist Hood, 40, saw the difference between the truly retarded and the salvageable brain-injured when he was hired to handle a class of Chinese "morons" in San Francisco. Most, he found, were not retarded at all, but their natural intelligence could not function normally because of their injuries. After he met Dr. Putnam (who has done as much as any man living to develop the use of drugs which now control epilepsy in two-thirds of its victims), Hood took over an abandoned mansion on West Adams Boulevard and started his special boarding...
...Putnam prescribes drugs to control seizures; Hood adds the ingredients of love, patience and understanding. There are no punishments. Punishing a brain-injured delinquent, says Hood, "is like punishing a blind boy for tripping...
...only a handful of such schools for brain-injured children. There should be hundreds, says Dr. Putnam. As a next step, he and Hood are laying plans for a $1,000,000 ranch school for more children whose parents do not know where to turn for help...
...mechanical brain for recording morbidity statistics...