Word: cortexes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...sponge in a wooden box. The membranes which enfold it, in youth tough as Cellophane, grow delicate as tissue paper. Often they are patterned with small plaques of bone. Brain convolutions shrivel, the valleys growing wider than the hills. Strangely enough, said Dr. Kennedy, only the cerebral cortex, seat of intelligence, grows wrinkled and old. Other more primitive brain structures remain "almost normal." The cells of the cortex, usually some 14 billion, "are reduced in number . . . many have vanished utterly...
...over 25 years modest Dr. Tilney spent long hours with his patients and his laboratory, studying brain tissues of men, apes, rats, reptiles, birds, fish. He believed that most men use only a quarter of the 14 billion cells of the brain cortex. "The brain of modern man," said he, "is only some intermediate stage in the ultimate development of the master organ of life." When man's brain finally bursts into full bloom, he prophesied, depressions and wars will disappear...
...Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital, Dr. John Scudder has tried an extract of the adrenal cortex (eschatin) to save patients already in shock after operations and severe burns. In a newly published text (Shock-Lippincott-$5.50) he reported that cortical extract snatched 14 persons from death after transfusions and oxygen had failed...