Word: neurologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Black-Eyed Martha. Twenty years of work made Freud "a first-class neurologist, a hard worker, a close thinker." But he showed no signs of imaginative genius. This was partly because of his determination to discipline his fanciful mind, but largely because in 1882 he fell madly in love and felt he could not get married until he had built up a solid reputation...
...letters, Jones thinks, are "a not unworthy contribution to the great love literature of the world." Written in a style often "reminiscent of Goethe," they combine "exquisite tenderness . . . range of vocabulary . . . wealth of allusion.'' They are also a fascinating guide to the man behind the neurologist: from them emerges suddenly a tough, jealous, ferocious figure, resembling a young Napoleon...
...Least a Month." The attached medical report, signed by the old P.M.'s own medical adviser. Lord Moran, and by Sir Russell Brain, Harley Street neurologist and president of the Royal College of Physicians, was short and unspecific: "The Prime Minister has had no respite for a long time from his very arduous duties, and is in need of a complete rest. We have therefore advised him to abandon his journey to Bermuda and to lighten his duties for at least a month...
...father of psychosurgery in the U.S., Washington Neurologist Walter Freeman bears a heavy burden of responsibility, both medical and moral. With Dr. James Watts, he introduced the drastic operation of lobotomy (cutting nerve connections in the forebrain) to relieve unbearable pain and the severest mental disorders. Now, in the A.M.A. Journal, 16 years and 2,000 lobotomies later, bearded Surgeon Freeman takes a long, hard look backward over the hazards, successes and failures of lobotomy, and notes a sharp distinction between old and new techniques...
Besides Davis, five other men were elected to honorary membership yesterday. They are Dr. James B. Ayer '03, well-known neurologist; John N. Burk '16, music historian; Mark A. DeWolfe Howe '28, professor of Law; Francis Keppel '38, dean of the Graduate School of Education; and Frederick R. Weed '28, headmaster of Roxbury Latin...