Word: tumors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brain has been supposed, but never demonstrated conclusively until Edmund Jacobson of the University of Chicago thrice pushed a sharp wire into the brain of a normal man and found that an electrical current resulted every time the man closed his jaw. The experiment was possible because a bone tumor had necessitated removal of three square inches from the top of the man's skull. Dr. Jacobson's needle, therefore, perforated only scarred scalp to plunge one and a half inches into the living brain. Because this experiment harmed the man not at all, Dr. Jacobson hopes...
Surgeons in plays and cinemas who whisper "Brain tumor!" behind the doomed victim's back give laymen the impression that these disorders are rare. But Dr. Harvey Williams Gushing, famed Yale brain surgeon, declares that no part of the body, with the possible exception of the uterus, is as troubled by such malignant growths as the brain. Dr. Gushing has made the acquaintance of more than one thousand brain tumors and one of the commonest, most rapidly growing and most immediately fatal types-the spongioblastoma-comprises one-third of his cases. Surgical removal is sometimes effective but there...
...every subject known to have a brain tumor, or subsequently found to have one, of whatever size, the MIO was definitely higher than normal. Olfactory fatigue (individual increase of MIO after prolonged whiffing) was also longer than normal. Extent to which the MIO and fatigue were abnormal furnished a rough clue to the size and depth of the tumor. Finally, unequal distribution of scent power and endurance between the two nostrils showed that the tumor was located wholly or mostly in one hemisphere of the brain...
...therefore direct that it be severed from my body and delivered to the said Dr. Gushing." At the Yale Medical School famed Brain Surgeon Gushing, father-in-law of James Roosevelt, said he was already working on Mrs. Glogau's brain which had been marred by a tumor of the pituitary gland...
...that state she was carried to the University of Vienna's gynecological clinic directed by Dr. Wilhelm Weibel. To his trained eye the woman was in a state of eclampsia. Her baby had become a deadly living tumor in her womb, was poisoning her to death. A caesarean section was plainly in order. Dr. Weibel had the woman placed on an operating table and prepared. His assistant, Dr. Ernst Preissecker, loaded a sterilized portable cinema camera to photograph Dr. Weibel at work for the benefit of medical students...