Word: braining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then Dr. Charles Frederick Buckley, school physician, recognized Harold's rubbing poison ivy on his own face as a symptom of hypo-pituitarianism. When the pituitary gland is underdeveloped the victim is subject to convulsive seizures. These fits differ from those caused by brain infections or other cranial maldevelopments in that they are apt to be erratic and to manifest themselves viciously. They appear with adolescence. Endocrinologists have discovered that young hypo-pituitarians, if untreated, become very fat, sexually undeveloped. This boy was just beginning to manifest those marks. But five to ten grains of sheep's pituitary...
...Arnold needs came before the National Association of Police & Fire Surgeons and the Medical Directors of Civil Service Commissions when they convened in Manhattan last week. Dr. Samuel B. Hadden, associate neurologist of the Philadelphia Department of Public Safety, reminded his associates that inflammation of the brain is a frequent cause of children's misdemeanors, that they often develop anti-social tendencies and lose their sense of responsibility, with little or no impairment of their other mental faculties. Such children may develop into "master criminals." Dr. Hadden advised that they be sent to special training schools...
...years at Oxford with Sir Charles Sherrington and, in that period, received the M.A., and Ph.D. degree from Oxford. In 1925 Dr. Fulton returned to Harvard to study for his M.D., which he received in 1927. The year following he spent at Dr. Harvey Cushing's famous clinic for brain surgery in connection with the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and the Harvard Medical School. He returned to England in 1928 as Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. Of the numerous publications by Dr. Fulton, his most important work thus far is "Muscular Contraction and the Reflex Control of Movement...
...referee. When Baer's blows slowed to the extent of allowing him to fall, Campbell slipped forward on his side. He was counted out while the crowd stormed the ring trying to get at Referee Toby Irwin. Never regaining consciousness, Campbell died a few hours later because his brain had been snapped from its supporting tissue...
...crew and addresses his sailing master as "Mr." He sails a boat hard and cleverly on the wind and has a reputation as a windjammer, one who would "set a circus-tent on deck in a blow if he could find a pole to put it on." To the brain busy behind his square, high forehead, prodding out through his pince-nez, the U. S. looks as the course signals go up on the committee boat in answer to a southwest September wind and the two sloops put over the line, from Brenton's Reef to sea, from...