Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old Soviet leader reportedly had a brain hemorrhage on Sunday March 1. News of Stalin's critical condition was flashed to the world by Moscow radio at 12:15 EST this morning...
Last night's broadcast said he suffered a brain hemorrhage 12 nights later, during the night of March...
...During the night of March 1, Comrade Stalin, when he was in Moscow in his apartment, had a hemorrhage in the brain which affected vital parts of the brain. Comrade Stalin lost consciousness...
...trouble is not actually a loss of memory, says Dr. Suter in the A.M.A. Journal, but a defect in the part of the brain which governs associations between objects and the words which stand for them. This seems to be a specific region on the dominant (usually the left) side of the brain. It may have been damaged by a stroke, or by hardening of the cerebral arteries. In such cases, nothing can be done. But almost as often, Dr. Suter found in a series of 20 patients, the forgetting of names is caused by a tumor in this Association...
Four-fifths of his cases had been misdiagnosed or overlooked, said Dr. Suter, and he urged doctors to be on the watch for this complaint, because it is one of the few symptoms that may give a clue to the location of a brain tumor. But he had a hopeful note: anomic aphasia is much less common now that middle-ear infections are so readily controlled by sulfas and antibiotics. And anybody who fails to remember the name "anomic aphasia" for more than a few minutes need not worry about...