Word: neurosurgeons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Besides Father Lévesque, St. Laurent planned to give Senate seats to a Protestant churchman and to eight other non-political figures in public life. Dr. Wilder Penfield, Montreal's famed U.S.-born neurosurgeon, was another prospect...
...Calvin Hoover was one of Averell Harriman's top advisers on the Marshall Plan. Eber Malcolm Carroll, an authority on German history, served in the OSS during the war, directed the editing of captured German papers. Physicists Walter Nielsen and Lothar Nordheim played major roles at Oak Ridge. Neurosurgeon Barnes Woodhall is a ranking consultant to the Veterans Administration. Congregations throughout the East have heard the sermons of Preacher James T. Cleland, and the State Department has more than once called on the services of Political Scientist Robert R. Wilson, specialist in international...
...Brain surgery can now be performed with greater precision, using ultrasonic vibrations (a million cycles per second, or 50 times faster than the highest audible note) instead of the neurosurgeon's knife. University of Illinois researchers have focused the beam down to one-twentieth of an inch in diameter-the thickness of a pencil lead...
...Neurosurgeon Jefferson disposed of some medical fallacies, e.g., falling asleep has nothing to do with changes in synapses*- in the nervous system, or a shortage of blood in the brain, or accumulation of lactic acid. Neither is there, as some used to think, a sleep center in the brain...
...first the doctors could not be sure of the reason, either. It might be the petitmal form of epilepsy, or a brain tumor. At Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Neurosurgeon William H. Sweet tried the electroencephalogram ("brainwave machine") and got indications of a local disorder, but nothing definite enough to justify major brain surgery. Another standard test (in itself fairly drastic), involving the injection of air into the brain cavities, showed nothing. Not long ago Holly Hyde would have had to wait for her condition to worsen, imperiling her understanding of language and perhaps endangering her life, before the doctors...