Word: braining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doctors knew well in advance that they wanted a human heart for a transplant. They figured that one could be taken from a relatively young patient dying of brain damage, and that it could be placed in a man dying of incurable heart-muscle failure. But how were they to find the proper brain patient dying just when the proper heart patient was waiting...
...virtually all the major podiums -the Boston symphony (1919-24), Amsterdam (1924-34). San Francisco (1935-52), London (from 1961 on), guest conductor of close to 100 more-a maestro with a calm, precise technique that generally brought out the best both in the musicians and music; of a brain hemorrhage following a fall; at his home near Hancock...
...Brain Hemorrhages. A weak electrical current, suggests Irish-born Dr. Sean F. Mullan of the University of Chicago, may be the answer to an age-old problem: how to stop bleeding in a brain artery. These hemorrhages, usually at a spot where a cerebral artery has ballooned out and leaked or burst, are notoriously hard to shut off promptly. The most obvious plug for a burst artery is a blood clot, but with a clot the problem is how to make it and how to keep it from traveling and causing still more brain damage. Dr. Mullan and fellow workers...
...Chicago doctors have stopped bleeding from aneurysms (ballooned-out arteries) in the brain's arterial roundabout, the Circle of Willis, by drilling a hole in the patient's skull under a local anesthetic and inserting a stainless steel needle (see diagram). This has a hairlike electrode tip only 1/250 in. in diameter, which is positioned precisely by a double-grid system of X rays (see photos). The tip is the positive electrode for a minute current. The negative electrode is attached outside the skull. Within half an hour the iron in the electrode is "plated off" (in effect...
Disembodied Monkeys Sir: Let us hope that those live, disembodied monkey brains [June 19] are not conscious. If they are, however, I believe Dr. White should be urged to volunteer his own brain for these ingenious experiments...