Word: braine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FALMOUTH, MASS., Playhouse revives The Desk Set with Shirley Booth in her original role as a fact-packed researcher threatened by an electronic brain...
...canelike conductor's baton while leading an orchestra; Charles Valentin-Alkan (1813-1888) toppled a bookcase over on himself while reaching for a copy of the Talmud; Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) came down with cholera after drinking a glass of tap water; and Wallingford Riegger (1885-1961) suffered fatal brain damage when he became entangled in the leashes of two fighting dogs and fell on a sidewalk...
...Flat encephalogram or absence of "brain waves...
...least 24 hours later with no change." On its face, this language appeared to rule out the prompt transplantation of an accident victim's heart, but the committee felt that it was necessary to cover a few special cases. A victim of barbiturate poisoning may recover full brain function after 24 hours, or even longer, in deep coma. But in cases of massive head wounds, said Neurosurgeon William Sweet, a member of the committee, the brain damage would be the dominant consideration. Then the physician might decide, long before 24 hours had elapsed, that all hope was gone...
...Beecher asked Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Harvard Medical School, to sponsor the Ad Hoc Committee to Examine the Definition of Brain Death. Testifying before a Senate investigation into scientific research on humans increased Beecher's feeling that such a committee was necessary...