Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thanks to conscientious Dr. John C. Evans, superintendent, the institution is clean. But thanks to Oregon's legislature and public neglect, the State spends scarcely more than half as much money per month per patient as neighboring California, leaves its institution's superintendent to cope as best he may with too many patients, too small a staff. At a cost of 47 deaths, Oregon may learn to take better care of her insane...
...Brain Is Sliced. In their development of Dr. Moniz' methods, Drs. Freeman and Watts drill a small hole in the temple on each side of the patient's head where two skull bones meet. Surgeon Watts then inserts a dull knife into the brain, makes a fan-shaped incision upward through the prefrontal lobe, then downward a few minutes later. He then repeats the incisions on the other side of the brain. No brain tissues are removed. (In two operations they have cut cerebral arteries. Both patients died...
...patient is given only a local anesthetic at the temples-the brain itself is insensitive-and the doctors encourage him to talk, sing or recite poems and prayers while the operation is in progress. As his lobes are sliced, he becomes drowsier, more confused and incoherent. When his replies to questions show that his mind is thoroughly disoriented, the doctors know they have cut deep enough into his brain. (Dr. Freeman once casually asked a patient, "What's going through your mind now?" Said the patient: "A knife...
...surgeon's incisions radically disrupt the connection between the prefrontal lobes and the thalamus. Not all the connections are severed, since a patient might then become a victim of his unrestrained thalamus. But old ideational patterns are destroyed. The brain is forced to reintegrate itself, to form new internal pathways...
...traveler-auburn-haired, blue-eyed Novelist Grace Zaring Stone (The Bitter Tea of General Yen). Mrs. Stone was convalescing after pneumonia, and the lady thought it would be nice to read Escape aloud to the invalid. "You can't possibly have read it," said the lady to protesting Patient Stone, "it's only just come into the lending library." Says Novelist Stone: "I couldn't tell her I'd written the damned book. So I said to her: 'It simply isn't the kind of book I like to read...