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...unsuccessful wool merchant, while Schnitzler's was a fashionable ear, nose and throat specialist, who basked in limelight reflected from theatrical patients. Both young men became physicians and took up neurology; both went to Nancy to study hypnosis under French psychiatrists; both worked in the Vienna clinic of Neurologist Theodor Meynert. Largely because of their experience there, both abandoned the conventional practice of medicine. (Wrote Schnitzler: "Meynert tried to convince patients with delusions that they could not possibly have them.") There the parallel in their lives ended-at least on the surface...
...milled about the lawn, Khrushchev chortled to a startled U.S. sightseer: "We have a lot to learn from Americans [but] they are afraid we might find out some secrets of how to milk cows!" Boring in with pencil poised, New York Post Gossipist Earl Wilson heard a New York neurologist ask Bulganin if it was true that psychiatrists are on call around the clock for all Russians. Bantered Bulganin: "I don't know. They haven't had me examined that way yet!" After an hour of such empty pleasantries, Host Bohlen escorted B. & K. out through...
Next day an equal number packed the same hall to hear the University of Illinois' tart-tongued Neurologist Percival Bailey, a top brain surgeon, dissect the entire psychiatric revolution of the 20th century's first half. Revolutions, Bailey said, "bring change but not necessarily progress." Echoed Cincinnati's Dr. Howard Fabing: "The second half of our century finds us in a swing back to a more orthodox type of medical investigation...
Quietly Dropped. Neurologist Bailey used his sharpest scalpels on Sometime Neurologist Freud: "His ideas were often launched with great enthusiasm, like scare headlines in a newspaper, and then quietly dropped without retraction . . . Many of Freud's psychological writings are not scientific treatises, but rather, reveries-a sort of chirographic rumination...
Charles Dickens afflicted his characters with a bizarre variety of diseases. What is surprising, says London Neurologist Sir Russell Brain in last week's British Medi cal Journal, is that Dickens did so with impressive clinical accuracy.* When doctors were just beginning to evaluate physical symptoms and other authors were using vague terms like "brain fever," Dickens "looked on disease with the ob serving eye of the expert clinician ... so that he often gives us accounts that would do credit to the trained physician." Samples...