Word: neurosurgeons
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...which underlie a psychopathic personality. This drastic method of rescuing psychotic patients from complete insanity is not exactly a new invention. It has been developed in Lisbon by Dr. Egas Moniz since 1935. But now two men who have pioneered this treatment in the U.S.-Neurologist Walter Freeman and Neurosurgeon James W. Watts of George Washington University-have published a book, Psychosurgery (Charles C. Thomas; $6), based on their work. Some 300 people in the U.S. have had their psychoses surgically removed, Dr. Freeman revealed last week, and a score of U.S. surgeons are now using the revolutionary new technique...
...death rate from brain wounds, which in World War I was lowered by Dr. Harvey Gushing from 60% to 28%, may be far lower in World War II. So predicted young Neurosurgeon Ralph Bingham Cloward, who saved the lives and wits of "a large number" of sailors and soldiers in Honolulu Dec. 7. Last fortnight, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Cloward told how he treated brain injuries at Pearl Harbor, making use of surgeons' reports of similar injuries in British, German, French, Chinese battles...