Word: himwich
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Built for New Jersey's Wallace Laboratories, makers of meprobamate (best known as Miltown), the model illustrated both basic brain physiology and the effects of various tranquilizing drugs, as reported by Dr. Harold E. Himwich of Galesburg State Research Hospital in Illinois. To spell out his findings, a 16-minute recording was played, while a tape of recorded instructions controlled the illustrative lights in the model. To the visiting G.P.s, most of whom had given no thought to the brain's anatomy since their first year in medical school, the technical jargon was almost as forbidding...
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