Word: cerebrum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theory held by doctors is that infectious diseases, caught usually in the springtime, affect the pituitary gland. This is an endocrine gland the size of a big pea, located underneath the cerebrum and on about a line with the bridge of the nose. Formerly medicos supposed that it secreted the mucus of the nose. (In Latin pituita means phlegm.) Actually it controls the growth of the bones of body?those of the arms and legs. When it is pathologically oversize, it makes giants of the diseased persons; when undersize it dwarfs them. Irritated temporarily by springtime disease, it, in good...
Macroscopically (to the naked eye) the whole brain is divided crosswise into two unequal, grossly wrinkled parts. The rear and lower part is the cerebellum, the chief duty of which is to regulate the automatic reflexes and movements, such as walking. The upper and fore part is the cerebrum, where thinking is done. It is by far the larger...
...cerebrum (the tumor operation had nothing to do with the cerebellum) is divided from front to back into two hemispheres, a left and a right, which function almost alike. Each hemisphere is composed of five lobes, termed frontal, parietal, occipital, temporosphenoidal and central. Each is separated to a certain extent from its neighbor by fissures, or depressions, and each is also made up of elevations called convolutions and of lesser depressions...
...Dropping to the ear region one finds the large higher auditory centre. At the top of the lobe and a little back of centre is the stereognostic, whereat the brain recognizes the nature of solid bodies through the widely diffused sense of touch. At the hind end of the cerebrum is the visual centre...
...wrong with his higher psychical centres (one at the fore end of each hemisphere), perhaps with only one of the two, although they are most intimately related. Physicians diagnosed his ailment as from a tumor which was pressing down upon the fore part of the right hemisphere of the cerebrum. They sent him to Dr. Dandy for confirmation of diagnosis and for operative treatment...