Word: braining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This spring a wrecking crew pried the door off a car which had been overturned down an embankment and out stepped the driver with only a scratch on his cheek. But his mother was still inside, a splinter of wood from the top driven four inches into her brain as a result of son's taking a greasy curve a little too fast. No blood-no horribly twisted bones-just a gray-haired corpse still clutching her pocketbook in her lap as she had clutched it when she felt the car leave the road...
...emphasis among doctors. Where physicians cannot cure with drugs, psychiatrists with suggestions, manipulators with physical therapy, surgeons with excisions, nerve specialists are daring to meddle by disconnecting parts of the body's signal system. Along this line is the work of the Mayo Clinic's handsome senior brain surgeon. Dr. Alfred Washington Adson. Dr. Adson told the London Congress the technique, which he worked out with a Mayo associate, Dr. George Elgie Brown, of stopping Raynaud's Disease. This is a disease to which neurotic young women are peculiarly susceptible. After exposure to cold, shock or insult...
...prideful lot were the nerve specialists who met in London last week for an International Neurological Congress. To them, the brain, cathedral of human intelligence, is no more than 2½ lb. of raw meat, the cerebrospinal nervous system, conveyor of human will to muscles, a set of puppeteer's strings; the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems, a network of complex paths, lanes, byways and highways through which the human soul moves strangely. To know the complexities of the neural ways and cords and of the cerebral mass requires a chess player's intricate mentality. To dare...
Handsome Dr. Richard Max Brickner of Manhattan took out both frontal lobes of a man's tumorous brain, a unique case, said he. Together with the excised pieces of his brain the patient lost his memory and, reported Dr. Brickner, "control over his emotional drives, presumably because he had lost the knowledge that there was a social gain in such control. In this respect, he was like a child who has not yet learned that there is a world in which it is necessary to meet people and situations and become adapted to them...
...much as on the syphilitic disease of the blood vessels which brings about the gangrenous disease. One of them was paretic enough to attempt suicide by throwing himself out of a window and at 45 is a bedridden pauper at the expense of the tax payer, an incurable brain syphilitic. The second had also frosted toes. He died of his gangrene and associated syphilis and never was near a chain gang. The third had frosted toes and is still running around the world with them...