Word: braining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some, dressed in cutaway coats and bathing trunks, are dunked in swimming pools. In one ceremony, an upperclassman set a ball on a freshman's head and tried to knock it off with a hockey stick in the William Tell manner. He missed, and the victim suffered a brain concussion. An Amsterdam freshman told how 230 half-naked foetuses were jammed into a cellar and drenched with beer while upperclassmen walked on their heads; then the freshmen were forced to make their way out through a slender passageway called "the uterus...
...many diseases and disorders, from fleeting, no-account headaches to crippling paralyses, that doctors are often at a loss to know what part of the patient to treat first. Some forms of liver disease, for example, cause emotional disturbances that can be mistaken for mental illness or signs of brain damage. Merely to diagnose many cases in which the nervous system is involved takes an almost infinite variety of sensitive electronic devices. Treatment calls for gadgetry too, and research calls for still more...
Deep in the Brain. With eight oscilloscopes attached to electroencephalographs, doctors at Barrow can see brain waves the moment they are generated. X-ray pictures of the brain's arteries can be taken from both front and side at half-second intervals. To locate a defective part of the brain that is causing epileptic seizures, electrodes must sometimes be delicately inserted deep into the brain itself, so the institute has an elaborate device for placing the electrodes with three-dimensional, pinpoint accuracy. For the most refined diagnosis in some patients, these electrodes will be used for stimulating parts...
...institute's ultramodern equipment, Director John R. Green is proudest of the massive electron microscope. Magnifying 200,000 times, it can photograph bits of matter as small as a brain cell. "We can study changes in single cells in tumors and changes due to aging," says Dr. Green. "We see this machine as ten tons of hope...
...Green discussed the idea with Julia Barrow, wife of Charles A. Barrow, a former machine-tool maker. She had an incurable brain tumor, and shortly before her death in 1959, she asked her husband: "Why don't you go ahead and give Dr. Green his institute?" Barrow came out of retirement, donated more than $1,000,000 of his own money and raised $2,000,000 more to found the Barrow Neurological Institute...