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...patient is anesthetized, and a piece of bone directly under the needle is cut out by conventional surgery. Then the needle is lowered like a well-digger's rig into the thalamus, and the searing electric current turned on. After a year's experiments with animals, Drs. Spiegel and Wycis were ready for their first human patients. Last week they announced first results of their new operation, called thalamotomy...
Presiding over the clinic were two venerable brothers, Drs. Charles and Peter Kaadt (now aged 74 and 76 respectively). Insulin, said the Brothers Kaadt, was oldfashioned. So were diabetic diets. The essential thing, they said, was to take three tablespoons a day of the Kaadts' own diabetes remedy. Then insulin could be reduced (or eliminated entirely), and the patient could eat anything his heart desired...
Mountain Vacations. Drs. Carl R. Moore and Dorothy Price of the University of Chicago told the National Academy of Sciences how they sent some rodents on purposeful vacations. They assembled congenial groups of rats, mice, guinea pigs and hamsters and let them live for a while at pleasant mountain resorts. The idea was to test the theory that high altitudes have an adverse effect on sexual activity. Even at 14,260 feet, all the rodents multiplied with unimpaired efficiency. This altitude, concluded Moore & Price, does not diminish fertility-for rodents, anyway...
Placid Cats. Drs. Philip Bard and Vernon B. Mountcastle of Johns Hopkins told of experiments with half-brained cats. Some years ago they discovered that when its whole forebrain was removed, a cat became uncontrollably ferocious, reacting with outrage to the slightest provocation. Apparently the lower brain, the seat of anger, was dominating the cat in the absence of the forebrain...
...Drs. Ruesch and Bowman do not bother to define "middle class." Peter H. Odegard and E. Allen Helms in American Politics (Harper; 947) say, "Definitions of social and economic classes in modern society are difficult to make, nd particularly so in the United States. . . . The middle class might be defined as including those whose income is derived from salaries, commissions, or fees paid for services...