Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colorado, all professional boxers must get their brain waves tested regularly. Doctors audit the electronic rhythms inside each fighter's skull, 1) at least once a year, 2) within two weeks after he has been knocked out, and 3) often and repeatedly if his wave patterns look strange. After examining 24 boxers during a year, two Denver doctors reported their findings last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association...
Four fighters showed severe brain disturbances and five were moderately unrhythmic in the head-indicating suspected brain damage. The worst patterns showed up in the younger boxers and in those who had been knocked out at least once. From this, the doctors guessed that older fighters and those who have never been knocked out either have punch-proof brains or an acquired knack for keeping their heads out of fists...
Black Eye, White Wine. During the tournament's three days, the air buzzed with flying disks and gyrating Schinden. One Hornnss-stung player was borne off with a brain concussion. At a beer counter, another casualty stood with his head bandaged and his eye black-the victim, like half a dozen others, of a falling Schindel. At tournament's end, Basel's Helvetia Society, with 1,112 points, no penalties, got the champion's oakleaf wreath and a two-gallon, silver-studded drinking horn brimming with white wine. Farmer Gruber, with 104 personal points...
...aliments than for its ailments. It was there that doctors found a strange disease of the lungs caused by fungus spores (coccidioidomycosis, or more simply, valley fever). There, too, they see each year a creeping plague, of Western equine encephalitis, commonly called sleeping sickness, an inflammation of the brain caused by a virus to which men and horses are especially vulnerable...
...splitting headaches, stiff necks and high fever, later to lapse into a coma which may last for weeks. Children and the elderly are especially affected; the virus does not so often strike adults in their prime. Unlike the Eastern and St. Louis virus, the Western form rarely causes permanent brain damage...