Word: braine
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Charles Dickens afflicted his characters with a bizarre variety of diseases. What is surprising, says London Neurologist Sir Russell Brain in last week's British Medi cal Journal, is that Dickens did so with impressive clinical accuracy.* When doctors were just beginning to evaluate physical symptoms and other authors were using vague terms like "brain fever," Dickens "looked on disease with the ob serving eye of the expert clinician ... so that he often gives us accounts that would do credit to the trained physician." Samples...
...ceiling for days; sometimes making inarticulate sounds . . . giving no reply either by sign or by gesture, or in her unwinking eyes." Dickens describes her recovery, the change in her temperament-and the second stroke that left her "crooked and shrunk up" and led to her death. Says Dr. Brain admiringly: "Dickens shows that he knows that loss of speech is associated with paralysis of the right side of the body and that in such cases there may also be agraphia [inability to write...
...Dickens shows his psychiatric insight in many instances, but the story of Dr. Manette in A Tale of Two Cities is remarkable, says Dr. Brain, "for the accuracy of his account of a case of multiple personality and loss of memory . . . and because it includes an anticipation of psychotherapy." As a prisoner in the Bastille during the French Revolution, Dr. Manette had been a shoemaker. After release he lost his memory, but regained it when he came to London. He continued to have memory lapses periodically, leaving his practice with each lapse to return to shoemaking. Finally, a friend helped...
James F. Gilligan '57, of Eliot House and Nebraska City, Neb., was riding in the back seat of the Stevenson vehicle. He suffered a brain concussion and a double fracture in his left arm. He expects to return on Saturday...
Died. Carter Glass Jr., 62, copublisher and general manager of the Lynchburg News and the Lynchburg Advance, son of Virginia's late Senator Carter Glass; of a brain hemorrhage; in Lynchburg...