Word: neuro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which is far sharper-sighted than the ordinary "light microscope," on nerve fibers, the delicate tendrils sent out by nerve cells. They found that the fibers were cables made up of many hollow tubes about one-millionth of an inch in diameter. The discovery gave them an idea. The "neuro-tubules" seemed ideally adapted for conducting submicroscopic objects around the body. Perhaps, thought the doctors, they conducted the polio virus on its missions of paralysis and death...
JOSEPH L. FETTERMAN, M.D. The Neuropsychiatric Institute Cleveland ¶ Sister was psychotic; TIME'S Cinema editor must have been a little neuro-psychic...
...known Boston families, many of them graduates of the College and the Medical School and embraces surgeons specializing in general operations, septic surgery, orthopedic surgery, ear, eye, nose and throat, neurosis, urology, X-ray, and on the medical side, in communicable diseases, cardiac troubles, gastritis, intestinal tropical medicine, and neuro-psychiatric treatment...
...these none too scientific words Washington's Chief Air-Raid Warden warned the city's wardens against the effects of panic.* Last week in Manhattan, the Emergency Committee of Neuro-Psychiatric Societies, headed by Psychiatrist John A. P. Millet, began a series of lectures to wardens, giving a more realistic picture of the possibilities of air-raid panic...
...psyched. With that the play dissolves into a psychoanalytical circus with four revolving rings. The scene shifts from the psychoanalyst's office to the Allure office, to the young lady's dreams, and back again. Playwright Hart puts anything on the stage that he wishes?a love affair, sophisticated neuro-drama. fashion parades, farce, musical dream fantasias. And the lovely editress learns that she really wants to be less editorial and more seductive, to love not the married man but a cocky young charmer...