Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surgeon's knife can reach into the brain to sever the tensions which underlie a psychopathic personality. This drastic method of rescuing psychotic patients from complete insanity is not exactly a new invention. It has been developed in Lisbon by Dr. Egas Moniz since 1935. But now two men who have pioneered this treatment in the U.S.-Neurologist Walter Freeman and Neurosurgeon James W. Watts of George Washington University-have published a book, Psychosurgery (Charles C. Thomas; $6), based on their work. Some 300 people in the U.S. have had their psychoses surgically removed, Dr. Freeman revealed last week...
...Brain Is Sliced. In their development of Dr. Moniz' methods, Drs. Freeman and Watts drill a small hole in the temple on each side of the patient's head where two skull bones meet. Surgeon Watts then inserts a dull knife into the brain, makes a fan-shaped incision upward through the prefrontal lobe, then downward a few minutes later. He then repeats the incisions on the other side of the brain. No brain tissues are removed. (In two operations they have cut cerebral arteries. Both patients died...
...week's end the Mayor again felt the stings of ingratitude. With the best intentions in the world, he posed for a news picture showing him about to plunge a knife into a rubber dragon which Macy's department store once used for Thanksgiving Day parades and is now donating to the scrap pile. Some Manhattan ingrates suggested that this was not the first rubber dragon their Mayor had slain...
...device for calculating foolproof GM is called a Ralston Stability & Trim Indicator (Kenyon Instrument Co.). It is essentially an aluminum tray, engraved with a longitudinal cross section of the ship drawn to scale, which balances on a pair of knife edges. Weights, gauged to actual weight of cargo to be carried, are then placed over each hold on the diagram. The tray is then balanced by means of a sliding block, and the balance point is translated by graph directly into GM. Another pair of knife edges at right angles to the first can then be used to gauge...
...personnel being moved will provide themselves with a sleeping bag, food and water for one week, clothing for one week, iron rations, three extra pairs of shoes, a compass, a scout knife, a pistol and roller skates or a scooter. No motorized equipment or collapsible boats will be permitted. . . . The War Department will issue walkie-talkies...