Word: metzler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Milwaukee last week Dr. Roland Metzler Klemme, St. Louis surgeon, described what he considers the best modern technique for relief of tic douloureux. It is a brain operation performed with the patient in a sitting position, under local anesthetic. Dr. Klemme makes a hole about the size of a quarter in the skull under the temple, lifts up the brain, exposes the root of the fifth cranial nerve, which serves the upper and lower jaws and the eyes. He delicately separates the fibres, severs only the sensory jaw fibres. In this way he has successfully relieved some 200 tic sufferers...
William Henry Metzler, dean of the New York State College of Teachers . . . Sc.D...