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...With a probe-or sometimes with two, one in each lobe-held at this freeze level for 15 minutes, Dr. Rand's group has safely achieved the desired degree of pituitary destruction in more than 50 cases. Other neurosurgeons agree that for the pituitary, the supercold technique is "superior to all the rest"-such as scooping out the pituitary with a tiny, long-handled spoon, always with the danger that too much of the pituitary would be left...
Medical researchers have not yet found the cause of the disease, but surgeons have succeeded in treating its symptoms. New York's Dr. Irving S. Cooper uses supercold liquid nitrogen to destroy an area of the brain that is responsible for the patient's characteristic tremors...
Newest notion is to use magnet coils cooled by liquid hydrogen to 10° or 20° above absolute zero ( - 459.6° F.). At this temperature the conductivity of metals is enormously increased. Supercold coils carrying monstrous currents might produce magnetic fields strong enough...