Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meant putting a knife through healthy tissues to get at the almost inaccessible ansa lenticularis. He saw the same objections to alcohol injections (TIME, March 21, 1955). Dr. Meyers believed that ultrasound might prove sharper and more precise than any scalpel, worked with Fry in designing and building a treatment room for Iowa City...
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...
...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...
...government announcement said 137 persons in the crowd around the President last night were still in Jakarta Municipal Central Hospital for treatment of shrapnel wounds. Most of them are small children. Seven persons, including two children, were killed instantly...
...Leopold II, captured his horrified attention. It was a time before Europe knew itself capable of Belsen, and Europe was shocked by Casement's voluminous, angry reports (published in 1904) on torture, floggings and forced labor. Later, he made similar reports for the British Foreign Office about cruel treatment of rubber-plantation workers in Peru. By now, Casement had become a romantic celebrity with something of Byron about him. He was knighted by King George V, and he wrote a fulsome letter of gratitude to Foreign Minister Sir Edward Grey about his honor...