Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Around the world, in hot climes and cool, flourishes a group of viruses that attack the central nervous system, causing encephalitis (inflammation of the brain). Many of these viruses-which scientists have classified in two distinct families labeled "A" and "B"-have defied the efforts of virologists and immunologists to devise protective vaccines. Now Johns Hopkins University's Dr. Winston H. Price reports what appears to be a major breakthrough in the war against the encephalitides. The technique depends on family similarity: immunity against two or three members of the B virus family, it appears, gives immunity against...
...Doctors are learning to control phenyl-pyruvic oligophrenia, a
brain-crippling disease of infants caused by the body's failure to
assimilate a protein called phenylalanine. University of Minnesota
nutritionists report the case of a one-year-old boy in whom a diet of
enriched and predigested milk protein, plus fruits and vegetables,
arrested the disease.
...strong points." Ike was a great overall coordinator, but "perhaps his greatest asset was a greater share of luck than most of us receive in life." Of George Catlett Marshall: "A big man and a very great gentleman," who did not "impress me by the ability of his brain." Of Douglas MacArthur: "The greatest general of the last war [with] a far greater strategic grasp than Marshall...
...diver is, says Dr. Lanphier, "immediately a candidate for one of the most serious of all diving accidents: air embolism." Apart from the danger of a lung bursting, the abnormal pressure can force air bubbles through the pulmonary veins and into the heart. The bubbles usually travel to the brain, causing convulsions and unconsciousness, and unless the victim is treated promptly by recompression, he is almost certain to die. The greatest danger of air embolism is in emergency ascents-perhaps after the scuba has gone out of kilter at great depth. Dr. Lanphier notes: "Only a well-instructed and coolheaded...
...third floor has more "function rooms" including the crew room, and the Estabrooks room where the recent meeting of the brain trust behind the "Program for Harvard College...