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...Gallinger Municipal Hospital it was found that the slug had pierced the right frontal lobe of the brain. Chapman began to have convulsions, and lost consciousness. In an operation, a partial cutting of the connective nerve fibers was inevitable. The surgical treatment was successful; physically, Chapman recovered fast...
...left and right field respectively if Amen tosses a left-hander at the Crimson. Otherwise, John Caulfield and Herbie Neal will play. ARMY HARVARD Stuff, cf Dunn, ss Metzger, lf Foynes or Mackmull, 3b Caulfield,cf Winfield, rf Rocheor Neal, rf Irons, c Coulson, 1b Galiffa, 1b Moffie, cf Lobe, 2b Huntington, 2b Dolan, ss Mannino, 3b Griesfinger, p Crosby, c Godin...
Brain surgery is a tempting way to tackle insanity. When it works, the results are quick and dramatic. Recently surgeons have been concentrating on the front part of the brain, isolating the frontal lobe from the rest of the brain (prefrontal lobotomy), or cutting part of it out (topectomy). Trying a new approach, Vienna-born Neurologist Ernest A. Spiegel and Brain Surgeon Henry T. Wycis, both of Philadelphia's Temple University, decided to work on the thalamus, at the base of the brain...
...thalamus, a sort of relay station, transmits nerve impulses to & from the frontal lobe. When these nerve pathways get out of whack, the doctors reasoned, emotional control becomes disturbed and insanity results. Why not operate on the thalamus direct instead of risking damage to the frontal lobe? The big difficulty was getting at the thalamus without wrecking three inches of brain...
Last week surgeons were busily discussing an improvement on lobotomy announced at a special meeting called by the New York Society of Neurosurgery. Some thought that the new operation, called topectomy,* was the best yet. Others were skeptical. Instead of short-circuiting the whole frontal lobe, the surgeons remove part of the brain tissue-sometimes tiny bits, sometimes pieces as big as a cookie. The size depends on the patient's symptoms ; so does the area in which the hole is made (it may be in the temple just above the eyebrow, higher on the forehead...