Word: brained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week report of his most recent work, on brain extracts, reached the general public by journalistic interpretation of a weighty article in last month's issue of Medizinische Klinik (Berlin). He de scribed very technically how he crushed the brains of tree frogs and from the juice se cured an extract which he called centronervin. That extract, when injected into the lymph systems and thence into the blood stream of live frogs stimulated them remarkably. It toned up their muscles, made them stronger, especially it seemed to speed up their reactions. Treated frogs saw flies more quickly than normal...
...slender, patrician Englishman who rose to reply is Viscount d'Abernon of Stoke d'Abernon. A brilliant master of conciliation he scored heavily as the Empire's first Ambassador in sullen Berlin directly after the War. His brain conceived the Locarno Pacts. When three other statesmen?Briand, Chamberlain, Stresemann?carried through his idea and each won a Nobel Peace Prize, he contentedly retired. Germany had been brought back into the comity of nations and he did not care who got the credit. In the same spirit Viscount d'Abernon recently con- sented to head the unofficial British Trade Mission...
...Then someone had a brain wave. The hitherto undiscovered means of giving us the sum we needed was discovered. At midnight our demands were accepted and the conference saved...
Rages. Injuries to the base of the brain cause quick rages, found Oxford's J. F. Fulton and F. D. Ingraham...
...avoid a crowd of learned admirers. They crowded about him and forced him to hold a sort of court. He liked the adoration. His early big work was on the salivary glands and on the nerves of the heart. His current work is on the functioning of the brain. Behaviorists have taken up his theories and made them fairly common knowledge. His picture of mental activity is mechanistic. The brain acts according to habits. Certain repeated stimuli condition it (and the physical and physiological activities which it 'controls) so that the reappearance of a stimulus causes the old response. Sight...