Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...replacing a top section of an epileptic's skull with a piece of thick celluloid, Dr. Karl Winfield Ney claims to alleviate many cases of epilepsy. Last week Dr. Ney, 50, professor of neurosurgery at Manhattan's Homeopathic Medical College & Flower Hospital, told the Schenectady County Medical Society the why and how of his procedure...
...noticed that after head injuries many soldiers developed epilepsy. Dr. Ney and associates, first with the French Red Cross, later the American Expeditionary Forces, observed particularly that where the injury occurred the cortex and three soft coverings of the brain (pia mater, arachnoid membrane, dura mater) adhered to the skull. If during an operation the surgeon pulled at the attached soft parts, the patient on the operating table went into epileptic convulsions. The Ney group judged that the convulsions resulted from the incidental stretching of the cerebral cortex...
...Taylor Robinson. In 1928 Senator Robinson ran for Vice President as a Dry beside Wet Al Smith. In 1931 he was still doggedly opposed to his party's Wet turn. At a Washington meeting he thundered Bryanesquely: "You cannot write on the banner of the Democratic party the skull & crossbones of an outlaw trade." But after last year's Chicago convention, Senator Robinson, loyal Democrat, swallowed his personal opinions...
...fighter's eyes confirmed the diagnosis of a deep-seated lesion in the right side of the brain. To relieve pressure and explore the injury Dr. Byron Polk Stookey, Columbia brain surgeon, cut a 3 1/2 in. disk from the right side of Schaaf's skull. Only a small hemorrhage was visible. But there was much swelling...
...expedition. Practically everything that could go wrong did. but again Stanley got his man. this time succeeded in bringing him out to Africa's edge. During the ensuing banquet at Bagamoyo, Emin Pasha wandered out on a balcony, nearsightedly fell 18 ft. into the street, fractured his skull...