Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Least a Month." The attached medical report, signed by the old P.M.'s own medical adviser. Lord Moran, and by Sir Russell Brain, Harley Street neurologist and president of the Royal College of Physicians, was short and unspecific: "The Prime Minister has had no respite for a long time from his very arduous duties, and is in need of a complete rest. We have therefore advised him to abandon his journey to Bermuda and to lighten his duties for at least a month...
...days earlier. It took 45 minutes from the time the clamps shut off the blood flow to the lower organs for the surgeons to stitch the graft in place and remove the clamps, letting the blood flow resume. (The whole operation took 4½ hours.) The sheriff's brain was never threatened, as it received its normal blood supply from a higher-branching artery. And the interruption in blood flow did not even damage his kidneys. This, said the doctors, means that the operation is safer and can be done more easily than might have been expected...
...Several victims of Parkinson's disease, for which no effective treatment had been known, have been freed of their uncontrollable shaking and restored to near-normal life by a new brain operation, reported New York University's Dr. Irving S. Cooper. Discovered by chance when an accident happened during surgery for another purpose, the operation involves opening the skull and shutting down an artery in the brain with silver clamps which are left in place. One patient, so palsied for 18 years that he could not stand, hold a book, feed or clothe himself, now does all those...
...general, Dr. Freeman is as confident as ever that the hotly debated brain operations are right and proper, provided always that the patients are chosen with care. Of 1,019 cases which he has been able to follow for a year or more (up to 15 years), Dr. Freeman rates the result good in almost half...
...hazards within the pattern of brain surgery, Dr. Freeman has undergone a great change of heart. He has fallen completely out of love with the prefrontal lobotomy. in which a knife is inserted through a hole drilled in the temple, though he performed 624 such operations, most of them with Watts. Now he is a devotee of the transorbital lobotomy. in which approach to the frontal lobe is made through the eye socket (TIME, Sept...