Word: neurosurgeons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into the Brain. Because the technique involves drastic brain surgery before the electrical current can do its work, explain Psychiatrist Frank Ervin and Boston City Hospital's Neurosurgeon Vernon H. Mark, it is only for the occasional patient whose condition is severe enough to justify the heroic procedure. But it offers more hope of substantial surcease than any other treatment now available...
Treacherous Crash. How elusive damage can be is shown by the case of a garageman, cited by Neurosurgeon Arthur Winter of East Orange, N.J. The young mechanic was hit on the head when a car slipped off a jack, but he did not become unconscious or even dizzy, went right back at work underneath the car. That evening he lost his dinner and seemed dazed. At the hospital, no mark was found on the skull, so surgeons had to drill holes in it and search for the trouble. They discovered a mass of blood and drained it. The mechanic eventually...
...this in itself is considered major surgery, and too drastic an operation for some patients. The cord-cutting procedure has an added disadvantage: when the patient recovers, he will have suffered permanent loss of feeling in the affected part of his body. Now an imaginative University of Chicago neurosurgeon has devised a way to achieve the desired relief of pain by a relatively minor operation under a local anesthetic. His method also permits the numbed area to regain sensation after about six months...
...with the aid of instant X rays that an assistant hands to him every ten seconds. One group of nerve fibers in the spinal cord serves the legs, another the trunk, and a third the arms. When the tip of the hollow needle is in about the right place, Neurosurgeon Mullan blows in a little air, then a radiopaque dye, so that the final, precise positioning will show on the X rays...
...wife, Barbara Gushing Paley, is one of the three beautiful daughters of Boston's great Neurosurgeon Harvey Gushing. She is much more celebrated than he is, always appearing on lists of the ten best-dressed or -coiffed or just looking out from a photograph with a coolly amiable glance that makes men instinctively straighten their ties. Because she reads widely and far more than he has time to, he seems to look to her for literary judgments in much the way he depends on men like Jim Aubrey for first opinions about new gumshoes, comedians and hillbillies. The Paleys...