Word: braining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George Washington Crile, famed chief of the Cleveland Clinic, told the meeting that memory was an electrochemical process. Sense stimuli, he said, send electrical impulses through the nervous system. Reaching the brain these currents cause metal ions to be deposited in the pathway in some definite arrangement. Later, when the event which caused the initial stimulation is repeated, similar currents are dispatched which reactivate the original pathways, produce memory...
Arthur Davison Ficke, poet, essayist: Art is the revolt of the heart against the tyranny of the brain...
Lieut. Lester J. Maitland, who commanded the first airplane to fly from the Pacific Coast to Hawaii, motoring near San Antonio, smashed into a bus, suffered lacerations of the face, concussion of the brain, a lung punctured by a spoke of the steering wheel...
Hunter Siemel's best dog, Valente, found 64 tigers, was killed by the 65th. Hunter Siemel has killed altogether 107 tigers, three or four each month for the last two years. Of these, 90 died from one bullet in the brain, 17 he impaled with spear or bayonet...
...discharged into the body. Seeking the path of least resistance the currents probably passed through blood vessels. Arriving at the organ of Corti (one of the essential organs of hearing) in the inner ear the electrical impulses apparently stimulated the auditory nerve (which carries sound impressions to the brain), gave the sensation of sound...