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Promptly Poet Karinthy's doctor wife, Aranka, hustled him off to the Stockholm clinic of Dr. Herbert Olivecrona, a disciple of Yale's famed Neurologist Harvey Gushing. Since surgeons usually use local anesthetics for brain operations (ether may congest brain blood vessels), Poet Karinthy remained acutely aware of everything that happened to him. Last year, he published the first patient's-eye-view account of a brain operation in medical history. This week the English translation of Karinthy's remarkable book appeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Patient's-Eye-View | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...Tracy Jackson Putnam, famed Harvard neurologist, who several years ago independently devised an operation and instrument similar to Dr. Scarff's, claims that hydrocephalic babies of normal intelligence whom he has operated upon, grow up to be just as bright as normal children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hydrocephalus | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Concrete v. Abstract. Few men in the world know more about the workings of the human brain than grey-locked Neurologist Kurt Goldstein, formerly of the University of Berlin, now at New York City's vast Montefiore Hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Brains and Drunks | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...associates formed the Harvey Cushing Society, for the exchange of information on neurology.* Last week, at Yale University, most of the 46 members of the Society, together with a large group of physicians from Vancouver to Boston, met to celebrate the 70th birthday of the world's greatest neurologist. For two and a half days the scientists presented brief reports on their latest accomplishments. On April 8, they capped the celebration by surprising Dr. Cushing with a birthday bibliography of all his writings. Said Dr. Cushing, overwhelmed: "I am deeply gratified and touched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: BRAINMAN | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

Last week champions of culture received a severe setback when Manhattan's famed Neurologist Foster Kennedy, an opera enthusiast who prides himself on his florid literary style, came out with a blast against liberal college educations for physicians. "The ritual of education is devouring our youth," he told members of the New York Neurological Society. Training in a liberal arts college only "imposes infantilism" on a prospective medical student. Such training does not teach students to think scientifically for "the collection of credits in courses of oddments" can be gained by "agglutination of the tail to a wooden bench...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Kennedy Y. Agglutination | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

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