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...operations in which he has specialized. Freeman and Watts performed 624 prefrontal lobotomies. In this operation (see diagram), a hole is drilled through the skull back of each temple, and a dull, rounded knife is inserted to cut white nerve fibers connecting the frontal lobe with the thalamus, a neural relay station at the base of the brain. Freeman reports good results in 41% of such cases and fair in 34%, admits poor results in 22% (deaths...
...lost any of his 300-odd matches since graduation. Famed on the force and around the mats for his polysyllabic vocabulary, Wittenberg has a master's degree from Columbia's Teachers College, taught public school briefly before turning cop. He talks earnestly of "pectoral muscles" and "neural paths," is proud that he is one man who can mangle his opponent but not his mother tongue. After hours, he dabbles in oils and plays enthusiastic chess. In fact, he considers wrestling a kind of "body chess" ("You give a man a leg as a gambit"), thinks body position more...
Some of the earlier poems in this collection are marked by arty borrowings from the jargons of pseudo science and verse mannerisms ("the vowelled beeches," "the neural meaning," "the scurry of chemic blood"); in others, sense and emotion itself become lost in a game with words. But where Thomas is inspired by nothing more complicated than plain joy or direct recognition of beauty, his verse has a clear and bouncing simplicity-as in his picture of summer on a Welsh farm...
Last week at the Washington meeting of the National Academy of Sciences (see p. 65), Dr. Henry Borsook and associates* of the California Institute of Technology offered new hope to neural gia sufferers. The scientists knew that vitamin B 1 (anti-beriberi), which is found in yeast and fresh red meats, prevents nerve deterioration. On a hunch, they injected from ten to 100 mgm. of pure, synthetic vitamin B 1 directly into the veins of persons suffering from Tic Douloureux. The injection was repeated every day for six days a week. To the scientists' surprise, after several months...
Particularly at a winter sports carnival, ostensibly to glorify the Healthy Body and Soul, is the bottle an unwanted visitor. As Professor Hisaw maintains, "In any display of athletic prowess, the neural pathways must be kept clear from the effects of alcohol." An examination of complete skiing records shows that no skiing championship has ever been won by an intoxicated...