Word: skulls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Awakened one night last week in Berkley, Calif., when his bed began to rock, Henry Koutz, 54, leaped up, rushed for the stairs, stumbled, pitched over a banister, fractured his skull, died...
Since last spring when a Berkeley, Calif, surgeon sawed two holes in her skull "to let out the pain," as she understood the purpose of the operation, Dema Dunlap, 23, a buxom, introspective epileptic, had an irresistible compulsion to finger her scalp where it lay sewn over the trephine holes. The soft spots, yielding under pressure of her finger tips, felt like the germinal depressions of a coconut...
...Erich Kosterlitz had trephined the girl as a last effort to cure her of epilepsy. Sedatives and confinement in an asylum had failed to help her. He concluded that pressure on her brain caused her condition and that he might relieve that pressure by removing pieces of skull over her right temple...
...projecting butt of the spike. He rushed her to a hospital where he extracted the nail. Then she fainted. There was some chance for her recovery, for a person can live with a large part of his brain gone. In Harvard's anatomical museum is the skull of a man who lived for many years after an explosion drove a crowbar clear through his head. In Louisville lives a woman who had the front lobes of her brain removed on account of an abscess of the brain. In fact, Dr. Kosterlitz was sanguine about his patient. Said...
...Angeles last week had a perforated brain almost as bizarre as Berkeley's. Someone drove a knife into the head of one Frank Hill, Negro, and broke off the handle (see cut). The victim's skull was so thick that the surgeons could not pull out the blade without wriggling it, and wriggling would tear his brain irreparably. The surgeons therefore sawed the man's skull around the blade, lifted bone and blade together, expected uneventful recovery...