Word: brained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Inflammation or abscess of the scalp? No. There were no signs of erysipelas, wounds, boils, suppurating sweat glands, and very little likelihood of any decay of a bone in the skull. Encephalocele, a tumor formed by the sticking out through the soft infantile skull of the membranes of the brain, with brain matter and cerebrospinal fluid? No. This bump was too firm. Meningocele, a tumor containing the meninges of the brain and spinal fluid? Probably not, because a meningocele usually protrudes through an unossified part of the skull, usually at the back, sometimes at the root of the nose...
Gravely he turned to the father, who had come up, to the mother, who stood by trembling. There is a needle in your child's brain! When could that have happened? Perhaps when she was cradling her baby in her lap as she darned away. She could not tell. For the needle to puncture the infantile skull was easy. At five months the bones of the skull are comparatively soft. They have not yet closed completely, are joined together by tough membrane which in the embryo was the sole case of the brain (TIME, March...
...leave the needle in the child's brain meant eventual death, most probably a horrible death in convulsions. To pull the needle out probably would kill the child. Yet there was the slightest of chances that it would survive the operation. Because it was only five months old, perhaps the brain of its own accord would repair the damage the needle had already done. Perhaps the child would live and grow up normally. But the doctor would not operate without the parents' consent. They consented...
...needle straight out in one swift motion. The forceps must not grope for its grip on the needle end. The screech of slipping steel would sound the tiny patient's death. He must not jiggle the needle, else its embedded tip would tear the thin cells of the brain and kill the patient. With micrometer precision he gripped with the forceps the needle end. With ramrod straightness he pulled. The needle came out. Except for a little clot of blood it was clean. Little possibility of infection. The child probably would live...
...affairs rather than a story, based largely on actual spiritual phenomena in Mexico today, where Mr. Lawrence spent long months before climbing to a remote New Mexico mountain to write in bearded solitude. The pages are full of that Laurentian physico-mysticism, that preoccupation with endodermal emanations, the abdominal brain and sex pyschology, that moves many profoundly, puzzles others, and revolts the squeamish. The main characters are three: Kate Leslie, a sensitive Irish widow who has fulfilled her young womanhood and egotistically put it behind her; Don Ramon, Quetzalcoatl's triumphantly masculine semi-Indian high priest; and Don Cipriano...