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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...
...When getting ready for bed, take off your makeup, massage your face and throat . . . massage your scalp. This has the effect of soothing nerves and relaxing muscle tension...
...became president of the policy-making Falangist Council and acquired the portfolios of Public Order, Sanitation and Health. His most potent rival within the Falange, anti-Italian, conservative Raimundo Fernández Cuesta, lost his jobs as Secretary of the Falange and Minister of Agriculture. An even more important scalp was that of Foreign Minister General Count Francisco Gómez Jordana, formerly the strongest Cabinet spokesman of the old Army point of view. The anti-Axis Army, in short, would in future have to confine its remarks to the parade ground, and leave control of Spanish foreign policy...
With business-like efficiency, Vanderbilt and his well-drilled crew went after the Tomahawk with which his arch-rival had hoped to scalp him. In the first race, sailed in a gale that sank one of the competing boats and drowned a seaman, Vim finished 37 minutes ahead of Tomahawk, but was disqualified for crowding Sopwith's sloop at the start. In the second race, Vim beat Tomahawk by 28 seconds, in the third by seven minutes, in the fourth by 51 seconds, in the fifth by eight minutes. When the flags came down at sunset on the last...
...electricity, he seared off all the feathery tissue he could reach with his hot wire. Within a half hour he had cauterized the choroid plexus in both ventricles. After the operation, he gently withdrew the tube, inserted the plug of bone, neatly stitched up the baby's scalp...