Word: parkinson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...KING by Frances Parkinson Keyes. 351 pages. McGraw-Hill...
...hopes of damping down the perennial feud between California's Republican moderates and conservatives-and thus lessening Democratic Governor Pat Brown's third-term prospects-State G.O.P. Chairman Gaylord Parkinson last fall handed the troops an Eleventh Commandment. "Thou shall not speak ill of any Republican," he ruled, and to everyone's surprise, Parkinson's law became holy writ...
...ailing and overweight, smokes two packs of cigarettes a day, and suffers either from Parkinson's disease or the symptomatically similar aftereffects of a cerebral hemorrhage. He is also believed to have a liver ailment...
...years of cautious testing Laborit reports that the intravenously administered drug enhances the effect of anesthetics, thus lowering the amount necessary for a patient, and thereby lowering the danger. It reduces inflammation, has an anticonvulsive effect useful in treatment of epilepsy, and has a suppressing effect on symptoms of Parkinson's disease. "But it is Ag 246's analgesic or pain-killing qualities that are perhaps most promising," says Laborit. Operations have already been carried out using the new drug with no anesthetic. The patients felt no pain but remained awake throughout the operation, carrying on rational communication...
Surgeons listened in wonderment when Dr. Irving S. Cooper first described his "ice scalpel" and a new way to shoot liquid nitrogen through the brain to freeze part of the thalamus as a treatment for Parkinson's disease (TIME, July 6, 1962). Now, Dr. Cooper's cold is surgery's hottest technique - a tool for treating a dozen or more conditions in all parts of the body...