Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blip of light that appears on a screen and goes through the motions that the machine tool is expected to make. If no corrections are needed, the computer spits out a tape carrying the orders translated into number language. The tape is fed into the tool's mechanical brain, and without further human guidance, the tool forthwith turns out the part that the designer dreamed...
...Laxative. In New York City last week a longshoreman, 62, went to his medicine cabinet in the dark seeking castor oil, pulled out the wrong bottle and drank 2 oz. of oil of wintergreen. He was soon in convulsions and a raging fever, and threatened with death from brain damage. Rushed to Bellevue Hospital, he was stretched out beside the artificial kidney, which was primed with two pints of blood containing heparin to prevent clotting. Attending doctors from Cornell University put a cannula into the radial artery in the patient's wrist, connected this by polyethylene tubes with...
...main functions of physicians," Boston Psychiatrist Frank Ervin noted last week, then added: "Ironically, it's one of the things we do least well-partly because we don't understand it." But Dr. Ervin is one of a Massachusetts General Hospital research team that is using ultramodern brain surgery both to subdue the severest forms of pain and to learn more about pain's mechanisms...
Several diseases, of which cancer is the commonest, sometimes produce pain so continuous and intense that the most potent narcotics will not relieve it. One approach has been to cut white nerve bundles in the front part of the brain (lobotomy or leucotomy). This makes many victims better able to tolerate their pain, even though its actual intensity may not be reduced. Greatest danger: an overall dulling of the personality. More radical but also more logical is an attack through the thalamus, part of the central nervous system which relays many pain impulses to the higher perception centers. Biggest drawback...
...refinements of the stereotactic apparatus which plots a point inside the patient's skull in three dimensions. Then an elaborate technique was developed. In stage one, the surgeon drills a small, carefully plotted hole in each side of the skull to permit injection of dye for making detailed brain X rays. After two or three days comes stage two: another hole is drilled higher up in the skull, and the surgeons insert an insulated steel wire through three inches of brain until its thickened electrode tip lodges in the thalamus. The outer end is anchored to the skull...