Word: braining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than 1,000 relatives and friends when Elizabeth Browning Donner, their elder daughter, was married at Bryn Mawr, Pa., to Elliott Roosevelt, second son of New York's Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Governor Roosevelt's oldest son James is son-in-law of Harvard's famed Brain Surgeon Harvey Williams Gushing. Donner millions might thus have been allocated to investigations in Dr. Cushing's neurosurgical field. Or they might have been marshaled against infantile paralysis, from which Governor Roosevelt has suffered. But a strong Donner trait is immediacy of action, and cancer killed...
Died. Dr. William Williams Keen, 95, famed brain & nerve surgeon, wit, professor emeritus of surgery at Jefferson Medical College; of old age; in Philadelphia. Twice captured and exchanged during the Civil War, he was an Army surgeon during the Spanish War, was largely responsible for paratyphoid inoculation of U. S. troops in the World War. Surgeon Keen assisted in the secret removal of a sarcoma from the mouth of Stephen Grover Cleveland in 1893. Fearing the precarious financial situation would be aggravated by news of his cancer, President Cleveland had the operation performed aboard Elias C. Benedict's yacht...
...Carlson was born to a healthy Minnesota seamstress and a factory stoker. As often occurs, something had happened to his brain. Professor Bronson Crothers, Harvard neurologist & pediatrician, tells his students: "It is probable that injury of the central nervous system during birth, or immediately thereafter, accounts for more than half of the deaths of viable babies. Furthermore, it is almost certain that such injuries are responsible for the disability of more children suffering from organic diseases of the nervous system than any other single etiologic factor except infantile paralysis...
Professor Charles Freeman Williams McClure, Princeton anatomist, suggested that Mr. Carlson see Professor Walter Edward Dandy, Johns Hopkins brain surgeon. Professor Dandy said that neither surgery nor medicine could help-only the patient, determined education of his muscles, achieved by himself. Professor Dandy suggested that Mr. Carlson study medicine so that he might help others similarly mauled by birth. Yale Medical School accepted the student, reluctantly. How would he be able to perform his hospital duties? Professor Frederick Tilney, Columbia University neurologist, promised a job at the Neurological Institute upon graduation. "Bud" Stillman helped pay tuition and maintenance expenses. Medical...
Paralysis like that of which Dr. Carlson has cured himself and others may be due to faulty development, mechanical injuries, or infections of the brain. If the child lives and is not idiotic or epileptic, there is excellent opportunity for making him self-sufficing-unless neglect and ostracism drive him to villainy and madness. Distinctly a case of neglected Little's Disease is Shakespeare's Richard III. Snarling...