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This impassioned plea was received last week by Neuroanatomist Wendell J. S. Krieg, of the Northwestern University Medical School at Chicago. The sender was a 66-year-old Montreal widow who had just read newspaper reports of Krieg's paper, New Horizons in Brain Research. The Montreal widow was not alone. By week's end, 43-year-old Neuroanatomist Krieg had received nearly 100 similar letters from blind, deaf and crippled people from Constantinople to California...
Unfortunately, most of the would-be guinea pigs had read into Krieg's cautiously worded study a promise that was not there-i.e., the prospect of an immediate cure for their specific afflictions. What the carefully qualified report did suggest was the exciting possibility that experiments in the direct application of electrical stimuli to the brain or peripheral nerves may one day enable some of the blind to see, the deaf to hear and the lame to walk again-after a fashion, anyway...
...Krieg's research indicates that even when the transmission stations are permanently damaged, the brain is still capable of receiving and translating electrical impulses artificially applied. Thus, Krieg says, if a certain point at the back of the brain is stimulated, the patient will "see" a flash of light in a precise part of his visual field...
...respect he was certainly right: for a whole week the German Krieg had been without Blitz, a lightning war with the lightning extracted. Nearly three weeks had passed since the Germans announced they had broken the Stalin Line "at all vital points." and vaunted that Kiev was "on the point of falling." It had been two weeks since they announced that the Russians were throwing "their last reserves" into battle. It had been one week since they had spoken complacently of "the battle of annihilation" before Moscow...
Taxi and bus drivers were soon shouting the "news," Berlin postmen relayed it to housewives tearful with delight. Berlin telephone girls rang up subscribers with the glad news that "Der Krieg ist aus!" ("The war is over...