Word: penfield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Team. In the institute's eight-story stone building on the slope of Mount Royal, Dr. Wilder Penfield, the director and one of the world's top brain specialists, set to work with his staff. Explained Dr. Penfield to Elizabeth's mother: "This problem can only be solved by teamwork. You can't hope to win nowadays by any other method...
...Task. Last fortnight, in the operating room, Elizabeth was given only local anesthesia; she had to guide Surgeon Penfield's hands by telling him of her sensations. At one point she said: "I feel as though my left hand were moving but it isn't moving." During the eight-hour operation the surgeons took out about two square inches of damaged brain...
Cases like Elizabeth's have become almost routine at the institute. Last year 904 major operations were performed. Under Dr. Penfield, the institute has won an international reputation, attracted doctors and research fellows from all over the world. The institute houses both a hospital and McGill's neurological laboratories; when they are not treating patients, Dr. Penfield and his staff teach neurology and neurosurgery to McGill's medical students...
Says soft-spoken Dr. Penfield: "It is our task to accept the most desperate sufferers whether they come from farm, mine, factory, city, street, the home, or from other hospitals. We undertake apparently hopeless cases referred to us by doctors everywhere...
...capsule is the result of two years of work by Surgeon Captain Charles Herbert Best, codiscoverer of insulin, and Dr. Wilder Graves Penfield, director of the Montreal Neurological Institute. Using a double-ended swinging machine designed to make even sailors seasick (TIME, July 19), they first tested 60 antiseasickness compounds, found two which had a slight effect separately, a better effect together. They added another compound that was their own idea, colored the mixture pink for the psychological effect, put the stuff up in capsules to be taken every eight hours until sea legs are attained...