Word: braining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bullets and diagrams, Bull's report told of finding "two dead bodies riddled with holes; a tractor with numerous bullet holes; a magazine from an automatic weapon; a lever handle from a grenade; ... a pool of blood where one man allegedly had been shot, leaving part of his brain; tracks leading from the direction of the Jordan River to the ambush position and the tracks returning in the direction of the Jordan River...
...Katharinenhospital, in serious condition after the amputation of his left leg (above the knee) because of gangrene due to a blood clot; California's Democratic Senator Clair Engle, 51, in Washington's Doctor's Hospital after surgery for the removal of "a small amount of brain tissue" which was thought to be the cause of muscle spasms in his right...
...energizer drugs are technically called monoamine-oxidase inhibitors because they seem to work as antagonists to the enzyme, monoamine oxidase, which destroys some of the amines essential to normal brain function. Working with Dr. William Sacks, a biochemist, Dr. Kline reasoned that it was all very well to muzzle the destroyer, but why not speed up the repair process by supplying the system with some of those amines? They decided to try 5-hydroxy-tryptophane because of its known importance in brain chemistry...
...patient, who was also physically ill, failed to respond, and one responded feebly. But 18 showed marked improvement within 24 hours after they got an injection of 5-HTP along with oral doses of energizer drugs. Among 30 patients with different types of depression associated with hardening of the brain arteries or schizophrenia-like disorders, only seven showed marked improvement. But this is better than with previous drug treatments...
Watching the Grads. The cattle industry uses an electronic brain to get in 40 seconds a three-generation ancestry of any one of the 3,700,000 registered Aberdeen Angus beef cattle; an IBM machine tells many farmers, on learning the size and location of their farms, what crops to plant, what fertilizers to use and how many laborers to hire. Computers help to design comfortable brassieres for the garment industry, and have so highly automated many warehouses down to the billing and shipping that Rose Marie Reid swimsuits has cut by 75% the time it takes to ship...