Word: brains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...About half of the deaths reported as 'suspicious' are caused by discase," explained Dr. Moritz. The three main groups of disease deaths are those caused by heart disease, usually of the coronary arteries, brain infections, and unrecognized infections. The medical examiner eliminates the possibility of murder in these cases...
Five years ago a neurosurgeon in Houston, her home town, operated and removed a scar from the brain, but she was better only temporarily and then got worse. One day early this month, Elizabeth, now 18, and her mother climbed out of a plane at Montreal's Dorval Airport. Like many another sufferer from epilepsy, Elizabeth was headed for McGill University's famed affiliate, Montreal Neurological Institute...
...Team. In the institute's eight-story stone building on the slope of Mount Royal, Dr. Wilder Penfield, the director and one of the world's top brain specialists, set to work with his staff. Explained Dr. Penfield to Elizabeth's mother: "This problem can only be solved by teamwork. You can't hope to win nowadays by any other method...
...team tackle Elizabeth's problem? In all, 15 of the institute's doctors examined her and made recommendations. She spent hours in the brain-wave laboratory and found it "great fun" to sit in a soundproof room while little wires ran out like pigtails in all directions from her scalp. Doctors explained that a pen, attached to each wire, was tracing the brain's electrical waves. The only one that showed abnormal tracings led from the spot of her childhood injury-the exact spot to be operated...
...guide Surgeon Penfield's hands by telling him of her sensations. At one point she said: "I feel as though my left hand were moving but it isn't moving." During the eight-hour operation the surgeons took out about two square inches of damaged brain...