Word: spafford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...popped Dr. S. Spafford Ackerly of Louisville, famed among neurologists and psychiatrists for his post-operative treatment of a woman, who, despite an excision of a big chunk of her brain, remained placid and intelligent (TIME, May 27, 1935). Exulted bold Dr. Ackerly...
Less Brain, Better Sense. A Louisville woman, aged 35, had a tumor cut out of that part of her brain with which she did her thinking. To the astonishment of Louisville's Dr. Roy Glenwood Spurting who operated and Dr. S. Spafford Ackerly who managed the case thereafter, the woman exhibited better sense after the operation than ever before-her intelligence tests prove her an average U. S. adult. Her memory for recent events is excellent, for remote events remarkable. She now does more work, with less fatigue, worries less, has a better temper. She no longer fidgets...