Word: putnam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mellow statesman is fire-breathing Hamilton Fish, since 1919 the chosen U. S. Representative of the 249,589 inhabitants of Orange, Putnam and Dutchess counties in New York. To onetime Tackle Ham Fish, who represents in Harvard football history what the late Big Bill Edwards did in Princeton's, the day is lost that brings no new scrimmage, no fresh fray into which he can charge with windmilling arms, roof-raising voice and not-quite legal logic...
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...came to no workaday hospital, devoted to textbook treatment of disease, but to a great temple of experiment, where even sober trustees are fired by the high task of ending body's tyranny over mind, To 45-year-old Dr. Putnam, as to the other bold, competent physicians in the Institute, the study of brain processes and the treatment of brain ills is a "bread-&-butter science." Deeply concerned with detours of nerve paths and battles of brain cells, he knows that a long chain of simple injections, or the sharp bite of a surgeon's knife into...
Within a year, Dr. Putnam hopes to use the magnificent resources of the Institute for large scale clinical work in 1) multiple sclerosis, a mysterious nerve-crippling disease, probably twice as prevalent as infantile paralysis; 2) paralysis agitans, a lingering, incurable shaking palsy; 3) epilepsy (known to modernists as "convulsions"). Meanwhile, within the cheerful green walls of the Institute, turbanned patients continue to wheel their chairs through sunny wards, as 100 experimenters work on problems such as mirror-writing, abnormalities of the senses, hydrocephalus (water-on-the-brain), brain physiology and anatomy...
Brain Waves. Chief of the Institute's brain-wave station is young, German-born Dr. Paul Frederick Adam Hoefer, who came from Boston with Dr. Putnam. Close kin to a sensitive short-wave radio is the electroencephalograph. Tiny lead electrodes are pasted to the patient's scalp. From the electrodes fine, threadlike wires lead to the machine which detects, through scalp and skull, faint electric brain impulses. A connected drum and ink recorder charts patterns. Normal frequency is ten shallow, rippling, regular waves a second. Abnormal brain waves, often running to 25 a second, show up as irregular...