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...Chamber of Commerce and left-leaning Americans for Democratic Action seldom agree on anything-but they were together for a tax cut. On Capitol Hill, Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, fighting for an immediate slash, was joined by two Republican colleagues, Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper and New Jersey's Clifford Case. At the conference of state Governors in Hershey, Pa., New York's Nelson Rockefeller, California's Pat Brown and Ohio's Michael Di Salle-all running for re-election this fall-added their voices to the chorus. Within the Administration...
Three in One. But the neatest, cleanest way to kill a specific segment of tissue in a living body is by rapid deep-freezing. Dr. Cooper's newest technique, used in almost 200 cases in the past year, is to put the patient on the operating table under a battery of X-ray machines. Using a local anesthetic, he saws out a dime-sized piece of the skull, then inserts a three-in-one tube, only 2 mm. (less than 1½ in.) in diameter. The tube slips painlessly through the insensitive brain to the deep-lying thalamus...
When the X rays show that the tip of the tube is in the thalamus, Dr. Cooper lets in enough liquid nitrogen to drop the tip temperature to zero or -10° C. This knocks out the nerves, but does not destroy them. He asks the patient to raise an arm, or leg, or both: if the patient has full control of his limbs, with no tremor remaining, the tip is in the right place...
...Then Dr. Cooper admits more liquid nitrogen, to drop the tip temperature to -40° or -50°. In less than five minutes, this rapid freezing kills the offending, misfiring nerve cells. If the freezing extends a bit too far and the patient becomes unable to move his arm satisfactorily, Dr. Cooper has 30 seconds in which to correct the error and rewarm the thalamus. Most patients can be out of bed the same day and out of the hospital within a week...
...that nitrogen injection kits are being manufactured, other neurosurgeons, still skeptical, will try to duplicate Dr. Cooper's results. Awaiting the benefits of his bold pioneering are at least 300,000 U.S. victims of Parkinsonism, a lifelong affliction, of which doctors say: "Patients don't die of this disease-they die with...