Word: postmortem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mind v. Brain. Schizophrenia (split personality) is probably the commonest form of insanity. Where does it start, in the mind or in the brain? Most psychiatrists think schizophrenia is faulty functioning of the mind. On the basis of postmortem studies of ten patients with schizophrenia, Philadelphia's Nathaniel W. Winkelman came to the contrary conclusion that the disease should be considered organic: there are, he reported, changes in the brain that can be seen under the microscope. He found, for instance, a decrease in ganglion cells, and an unusual amount of fat in the cells. Most of his subjects...
...caused by sunspots, although Dun's Review, in all seriousness, devoted 13 columns to a discussion of sunspots and business activity in its first postmortem issue. It was caused partly by 1) the old fact that stock prices had generally risen far out of line with actual and visible profits, and 2) the new fact that too many people expected a recession, as the bastard result of full employment, high wages and too-high prices. Never had a coming slump been given such loud and passionate advance advertising...
...Robert Ley's heart and mind were further opened to the public gaze: 1) in Berlin, where his will was read; 2) in Washington, where the results of a postmortem on the suicide's brain were announced. The bibulous Nazi labor leader's will paid dithery tribute to "the beautiful women who have embellished my life so much," Inga (wife) and Madeleine Wanderer (mistress). U.S. Army pathologists, who have had the Ley brain since last October (see cut), found that the areas controlling behavior had suffered "a longstanding degenerative process . . . sufficient ... to have impaired...
...German Red Cross doctor who had been picking up wounded-both U.S. and German-delivered his postmortem: "We took too many orders, obeyed too many commands, listened to too many words, believed too many lies. We are a beaten people. We are a shamed people. We are reaping the whirlwind...
Hindsight. Not only was the epitaph pronounced but a postmortem was written by the Army and Navy Journal...