Word: skull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Holes in the Head. Three weeks ago, after innumerable experiments on animals to test accuracy, effectiveness and safety, the first human patients were wheeled in. Preparation took far longer than actual treatment. Under a local anesthetic four little dents were burred into the patient's skull, one above each eye and two in the back of the head. On a rolling table, the patient was wheeled back so that his head was under a stereotaxic (space-positioning) instrument. A pin on a micrometer mounting fitted into each burr hole. X rays revealed the main landmarks inside the skull. They...
...operation, each patient got only a local anesthetic, an injection of procaine hydrochloride into the scalp. Then, with a drill and saw, Dr. Meyers removed a piece of the skull, four by five inches. Ultrasound cannot be transmitted through bone because on meeting such resistance it generates too much heat. With the skull flap out of the way, the surgeons made a shallow pan in its place, using a metal strip as border and the dura mater (the brain's parchment-like covering) as the bottom. This they filled with salt solution from which all gas had been removed...
...salt pan was removed and the bone flap replaced. (It would grow back solidly into the skull in three or four weeks.) By the time the patient was wheeled back to his room, the uncontrollable tremor, the involuntary bending of the arm and turning in of the thumb on the right side had disappeared. In a few months, both patients will return to Iowa City for treatment of the ansa lenticularis on the right, to halt the Parkinsonian movements of their left sides...
...heels in a summer kitchen. It had been eviscerated and dressed out like a deer. Her severed head was in a cardboard box, her heart in a plastic bag on the stove. Around the house the police also found: ten skins of human heads, neatly separated from the skull; assorted pieces of human skin, some between the pages of magazines, some made into small belts, some used to upholster chair seats (the largest piece, rolled up on the floor, was the front upper section of a woman's torso); a box of noses...
Hitler drove him out of Germany because he was a Jew, Otto Klemperer fell over backwards when a railing gave way during a rehearsal, striking his head at the base of the skull. For six years he conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic, but a brain tumor developed and an operation in 1939 left him paralyzed on his right side...