Word: caplan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Softball: "R's"--Barbara Beatley '50, Mary Brandt '51, Abigail Caplan '50, Nina Emerson '50, Ellen Guild '52, Jo'ann Jehl '50, Margaret Mealy '52, Elizabeth Tucker '52 and Diane Wertz '51; numerals--Emily Ingraham '51 and Nancy Westover...
Softball, "R's": Barbara Beatley '50, Ann Burchsted '49, Charlotte Child '51, Marilyn Drewes '50, Miss Emerson, Camila Klein '48, Gloria Livermore '49, and Jo'Ann Jehl '50. Numerals: Mary Brandt '51, Abigail Caplan '50, Charlotte Coe '51, Anne Ewing '48, Margaret MacTavish '51, and Dianne Wertz...
...Israel Caplan...
Even brilliant epileptics, however, are haunted by fear of fits in public, or of the severe injuries which fits may bring about. In the British Medical Journal Dr. Gerald Caplan suggests a possible way to banish their worries. His idea: to drain off the epileptic's excess electrical energy by giving him an artificial fit "under controlled conditions of time & place" with the electric shock treatment used in insanity...
...Caplan gave shock treatments on an average of once a week to 15 patients who had continued to have more than two major fits a month after full doses of anticonvulsant drugs. Results: 1) eleven patients had fewer fits; one had only one in two months; 2) each patient in shock duplicated his natural fit, going through his own peculiar pattern of motion; 3) recovery from electric shock was quicker than from natural seizures, which often incapacitate a man for the day; 4) the remaining natural fits were less severe than before...