Word: neurologist
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...Schuman has tracked down books for almost every medical bibliophile in the U.S. His star customer was the late Neurologist Harvey Cushing, whose famed medical collection was recently installed in the new Yale Medical Library. Dr. Cushing longed for the first medical book ever published in the American colonies-a copy of a lurid best-seller on herbalism which had been written in England by one Nicholas Culpeper (Boston, 1708). But he never got his hands on one of these first editions...
...base of the brain called the hypothalamus. The hypothalamus throws the switch for all man's primitive emotions-rage, fear, desire. Normally the hypothalamus is checked by the more civilized cerebral cortex. But sometimes the leash is broken and the hypothalamus runs wild, ignoring, as a neurologist once remarked, "refinements of decency and convention...
Died. Sir Henry Head, 79, famed British neurologist; of paralysis agitans; in Reading, England...
...bright April day in 1903, Dr. Henry Head of Cambridge University, England went to a surgeon friend and asked him to make a six-and-a-half-inch gash in his upper left arm. Dr. Head, a robust, 42-year-old neurologist, was no masochist. He wanted to learn the connection between nerves and pain. The surgeon severed two nerves in Dr. Head's arm, flexed it at the elbow, put it up in a splint, and left his hand free for testing...
...Neurologists still remember Sir Henry's slashed arm. For pain is an important index in the diagnosis of brain and nerve injuries. A neurologist searching for a brain tumor in a patient with a weak, dragging left leg, for example, carefully pricks him with a pin to see where and how much he retains his sensation of pain. If the skin in a limited area is dulled, the neurologist knows that only a surface nerve is injured. If the patient is analgesic over a wide area, several nerves or even part of his brain may be damaged. By carefully...