Word: neurologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Sir James Purves-Stewart, 79, neurologist, author of the standard text Diagnosis of Nervous Diseases (nine editions, four translations); in London. An advocate of euthanasia, Sir James hinted in his autobiography (Sands of Time, 1939) that at the request of a mortally ill friend he had hastened her death...
Isabel Bishop lives with her husband, Neurologist Harold G. Wolff, and their nine-year-old son in suburban Riverdale, commutes to her Union Square studio five days a week ("Some people say they can't work in the city, but no one ever bothers me here"). She lunches standing up at a nearby soda fountain, watching the people around her and "hoping for something to paint." A tall, brisk woman with braided black hair and attentive brown eyes, Isabel Bishop looks rather like a chemistry teacher in her tattered white working smock...
...psychiatrists think, he was a stupid man who blundered into an idea too big for him: the phenomena of suggestion and suggestibility. A Frenchman, Jean Martin Charcot, demonstrated that hypnotism could both arouse and quiet symptoms of hysteria. Charcot also bid for fame as the teacher of a Viennese neurologist named Sigmund Freud (rhymes with overjoyed...
...tackle insanity. When it works, the results are quick and dramatic. Recently surgeons have been concentrating on the front part of the brain, isolating the frontal lobe from the rest of the brain (prefrontal lobotomy), or cutting part of it out (topectomy). Trying a new approach, Vienna-born Neurologist Ernest A. Spiegel and Brain Surgeon Henry T. Wycis, both of Philadelphia's Temple University, decided to work on the thalamus, at the base of the brain...
Died. Dr. Otto Marburg, 74, exiled Viennese neurologist, longtime good friend of the late great Sigmund Freud; of cancer; in Manhattan. Author of several standard texts on the nervous system, Dr. Marburg had been head of the University of Vienna's Neurological Institute for 19 years when he came to the U.S. as a refugee in 1938, joined Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons as clinical professor of neurology...