Word: neurosurgeon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that his pre-Casbah world had shriveled to six friends with the same opinion. At his first Casbah meal, he was plumped down with a sociologist, a historian and a literary critic. "That first luncheon," he said, "was like opening windows in a stuffy room." Equally impressive is Yale Neurosurgeon Karl Pribram's summation. For him the Casbah's value lay as much in a personal boost as in other people's ideas. "You have no administration, no classes, no students. You can evaluate your own work in terms of your own needs and wants, not society...
...years after Cornelius Packard Rhoads graduated from Harvard Medical School ('24, cum laude), there was little in his life to suggest that his name would become synonymous with cancer research. Son of a Springfield (Mass.) ophthalmologist, young Dr. Rhoads took his internship under Boston's great Neurosurgeon Harvey Gushing, then went to New York's Trudeau Sanatorium (TIME, Dec. 6,1954), Adirondack Mountain headquarters for tuberculosis research and treatment. After a Boston stint in pathology, Dr. Rhoads joined Manhattan's Rockefeller Institute, studied immunity to poliomyelitis. The institute sent him to the tropics to work...
Elaborate Technique. At Massachusetts General, Neurosurgeon Vernon H. Mark worked with Psychiatrists Ervin and Thomas P. Hackett to make the operation more precise and predictable. First came refinements of the stereotactic apparatus which plots a point inside the patient's skull in three dimensions. Then an elaborate technique was developed. In stage one, the surgeon drills a small, carefully plotted hole in each side of the skull to permit injection of dye for making detailed brain X rays. After two or three days comes stage two: another hole is drilled higher up in the skull, and the surgeons insert...
...skate, two inches long, caught Defenseman George Congrave on the head. It gouged a jagged hole about the size of a silver dollar in the left side of his skull, above and forward of the ear, and tore out a piece of his brain. In an emergency operation, Neurosurgeon William Lipscomb could do little more than cut away the surrounding damaged brain-so that Congrave lost a total of about ten teaspoonfuls of grey matter-and tie off the severed arteries...
...revolutionized medical thinking when he moved the seat of reason from the heart to the head and wrote: "From the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joys, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears." Since then (circa 400 B.C.), says famed Neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield, a few highly localized parts of the brain have been shown to control vision, hearing, speech, some physical sensations and most movements, but by far the greater part of the brain remains unexplored. To fill in one of the blanks on the cerebral map, Dr. Penfield has just...