Word: braining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sneezing, like hiccups, warts and baldness, is richly endowed with popular superstitions and remedies. Aristotle considered a sneeze evidence of the brain's vigor. Ancient Persians believed it to be the draft from the Evil One's wings. Hindus think a sneezer is expelling an evil spirit. Old wives' cures include pulling hairs from the nose, reciting the alphabet backwards, shooting off a revolver...
Easy Essays. Five years ago, Peter Maurin, who had stripped himself of everything else, lost the use of his mind, through arteriosclerosis of the brain. Virtually unable to think or talk, Maurin numbly lived out the end of his life at one of the communal farms he helped build near Newburgh, N.Y. But every issue of the Catholic Worker has carried at least one of the old "Easy Essays," and readers unaware of Maurin's illness have often written in to congratulate him on their timeliness. Wrote...
...theory behind the treatment, say the Drs. Sackler, is that histamine may give the brain a better blood supply by dilating the blood vessels. Electric shock, they think, works by increasing the amount of histamine. One advantage of the new treatment: the patient need not go to a hospital. The novel histamine report, Dr. van Ophuijsen suspected, would raise a "healthy storm...
...movie; instead Midge becomes a man who just can't lose--an animal who refuses to fall down, either by agreement or because of terrific punishment. He wins his last fight after being beaten silly because he gets sore in the fifteenth round; he dics afterwards of a brain hemorrhage-- ending his career not as a heel, not as a has-been, but as just one thing; the champion, if dead...
Scientists have long known that there is some electrical activity in the body, and that a change in the normal action may be a warning of disease. The knowledge has been used to diagnose ailments of the heart (by electrocardiograph) and of the brain (by electroencephalograph). Could the same principle be applied to cancer...