Word: stylet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...operations, explained Dr. Freeman, this instrument "is inserted in the anteromedial [front and centre] direction to a depth of four centimetres below the surface of the cortex. The stylet is pressed in, forming a loop near the distal end of the instrument. The leucotome is rotated through one complete circle, cutting a sphere or core of white matter in the pre-frontal area about ten millimetres in diameter. The stylet is withdrawn a few millimetres thus replacing the loop within the cannula. A second core is cut at a depth of three centimetres and a third at two centimetres...
...fanfare of pressagentry saluted the sailing of a Dr. Paul Gillet of Paris* for Manhattan last week. Dr. Gillet is a nose-tickler, one who claims to cure all manner of ailments by touching a nasal nerve with a stylet and simultaneously gazing steadily into the patient's eyes...
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