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...operation, called pre-frontal lobotomy, is not new. It was invented by Portugal's Dr. Egas Moniz in 1935, was introduced to the U.S. by Neurologist Walter Freeman and Neurosurgeon James W. Watts of George Washington University (TIME, Nov. 30, 1942). But doctors have kept quiet about it. The operation is a desperate last resort...
...unfilled dental cavity is an open door to polio. So conclude Neurologist Hans Reese of the University of Wisconsin and Dentist John G. Frisch of Madison, Wis. in the latest issue of Dental Digest...
Then he heard a scream. Eleven-year-old Keene Freeman, son of famed Washington, D.C. neurologist Dr. Walter Freeman, had escaped his father's eye for a moment, and slipped into the racing torrent while trying to retrieve a canteen. He was headed for the falls. As the boy twisted toward the brink 80 feet away, Veteran Loos, like the other tourists, had a moment for decision. He made it. He vaulted the rail, floundered in icy, swirling power...
...heart of a lady patient. He leaned down, listened, fell asleep and remained there almost half an hour. The lady thought it "an exceptionally thorough examination." Another famed Philadelphia doctor, S. (for Silas) Weir Mitchell, was a successful novelist, an expert on snake bites, and a pioneer U.S. neurologist. When his own nerves gave way, he rushed to Europe, consulted a Viennese specialist, was told: "In your own country is the man who can do you most good. His name is Dr. S. Weir Mitchell of Philadelphia...
Died. Dr. Bernard Sachs, 86, famed child neurologist; in Manhattan. Spry, goateed Sachs (who married his second wife at 82) called psychoanalysis a "disruptive . . . mechanism," deprecated some psychologists' emphasis on sex-consciousness in children, insisted that what they needed was beneficent tyranny...