Word: braining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impaired physical conditions observed in this instance are in reality due to the lack of oxygen rather than to the anesthetic. If the highly specialized cells of the brain are deprived of their essential oxygen too long, irreparable damage may result. Such after-effects are not confined to Nitrous Oxide-Oxygen, as they may and do follow the use of other anesthetic agents, for example, ether as mentioned in the report. Destruction of the brain cells may occur as a result of asphyxia without anesthesia...
...unfair to single out Nitrous Oxide in this manner, when the same condition may result due to the lack of oxygen when any other general anesthetic is being administered. We feel that it is especially unfortunate that your reference gives the impression that damage to the brain as described is due to the anesthetic agent, rather than the attendant lack of oxygen...
...Folly. Wary Hollywood, which scoffed at sound ten years ago, scoffed at the idea of a seven-reel animated cartoon. The Snow White project was referred to as Disney's Folly. Rivals said he had bought a sweepstakes ticket. Shrewd older Brother Roy Disney, the business brain trust of the Disney enterprises, surveyed Snow White's final bill of $1,600,000, observed: "We've bought the whole damned sweepstakes." In the Disney film, Snow White, the delicate stepdaughter of the Queen, is a dark-haired girl with a doll's oval beauty and a voice...
Developed all signs of inflammation of the brain...
...great uncles, famed Anatomist Caspar Wistar* of the University of Pennsylvania, had left an anatomical collection. This was the nucleus of the Wistar Institute and Isaac wanted to see it properly housed. When he died in 1905 he had given the Institute $1,000,000, as well as his brain, his crippled right forearm and hand, including the fingernails ("a desirable specimen of gunshot ankylosis"), his bloody Civil War sword which he preferred never to have cleaned, and several other relics including his baby caps and snuffboxes...