Word: braine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Good Samaritan Hospital, where a team of doctors headed by Neurosurgeon Henry Cuneo of the University of Southern California School of Medicine scrubbed and made ready. Cuneo, who was assisted by fellow Neurosurgeons Nat Downs Reid of U.S.C. and U.C.L.A.'s Maxwell Andler Jr., had performed hundreds of brain operations at Good Samaritan...
Disregarding the relatively harmless bullet in the neck, the surgeons turned their attention to uncovering the damage to Kennedy's brain. The head was shaved. Overlying skin and muscle were then cut and laid back. An air-powered drill bored through the skull, and a segment of bone was removed. Then, while Reid helped control bleeding, Cuneo probed the wound. Softened and bruised brain tissue, bone fragments and clotted blood were removed by suction...
...condition," Cuneo explained curtly. "But it hit the mastoid, which is a spongy, honeycomb bone. Behind that is the thickest part of your head. That's solid. The little bullet would have just bounced off. But hitting the mastoid, it sent bone fragments shooting all over the Senator's brain. The bone fragments are the worst part, not the bullet fragments. The bullet is pretty sterile from the heat, and once the fragments are in the brain, they don't do any more damage. But the bone fragments are sharp and dirty, medically speaking...
...Both types of fragments went all through the right occipital lobe. There were clots, swelling of the brain in general, laceration of blood vessels. I removed multiple bullet and multiple bone fragments. I knew there was irritation of the center of the brain, the region of the brain stem. I couldn't see that bullet fragment, but I knew it was there from the X rays. Of course I had to leave...
...removed the blood, irrigated out bits of destroyed brain tissue, explored the occipital lobe and the right cerebellar hemisphere. The cerebellum was bruised and damaged all along one side. There were more bone and bullet fragments in it. The draining of the blood and the opening of the skull relieved the pressure in his head, and a third of the way through the operation he started to breathe on his own again, but we kept the respirator going...