Comments on: “Thinking” Brain Removed (Aug, 1935)

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 05:03:26 +0000

She wasn’t very smart in the FIRST PLACE ! How smart can someone be to let them cut out part of your brain ? It doesn’t mention any reason why like cancer so maybe – let’s see what this does ?

Does anybody remember the Challenger jokes, what’s this button do ?

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:38:34 +0000

It was published because it was an especially difficult task, since the thinking portion of a woman’s brain is so tiny!

(lol calm down, that’s the 1930′s for ya!)

By: nardo

nardo — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:07:00 +0000

I know right?! But this was back in the days before science knew better, I believe that’s when they started letting them drive too. If only we knew then what we now know

By: Dr. Weird

Dr. Weird — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:04:09 +0000

Thinking brain? I did not know there was a “thinking portion” in a womans brain! Did you?

By: Rrrowlf

Rrrowlf — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:38:25 +0000

I thought a hemispherectomy was simply dividing the two hemispheres of the brain,
not removing chunks of the frontal lobes where the personality resides.

By: docca

docca — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 21:30:16 +0000

Firebrand38: that is called Godwin’s Law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law)

By: Blurgle

Blurgle — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:40:16 +0000

Even now hemispherectomies are done as a last-ditch effort to end life-threatening seizures that don’t respond to drugs or other treatments. If the alternative is having a seizure that lasts so long that the patient suffocates….

By: bill

bill — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:20:39 +0000

But the part of this article scientifically speaking is “Why?” Why remove a humans brain? To see what happens? What problems did she have to remove the brain?

By: Kryten007

Kryten007 — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:00:37 +0000

All right, point taken and I do apologize. I indeed hadn’t heard of him before, and you must admit this article doesn’t make his work sound very heroic. Besides, I didn’t say he’d *take* the job…

By: nlpnt

nlpnt — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 02:17:54 +0000

Where do you get Hitler cards??

The same mail-order places that offered Hitler stamps in the ’50s?

By: Blurgle

Blurgle — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 02:02:59 +0000

Dr. Spurling also treated George Patton when he broke his neck in an accident in 1945. Patton died, but that wasn’t that unusual in cases of paralysis.

By: Village Idiot

Village Idiot — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:06:17 +0000

This was almost a double-hemisphinctwhateverectomy!

Where do you get Hitler cards??

By: Firebrand38

Firebrand38 — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:39:22 +0000

I see, in ignorance we play the Hitler card. The procedure is actually known as a hemispherectomy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemispherectomy

Your “Hey Dr. Spurling” actually served as the Army’s first Chief of Neurosurgery at Walter Reed in WW2 http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/2428.html

By: Kryten007

Kryten007 — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:54:46 +0000

Hey Dr. Spurling: there’s a guy in Germany with a bad haircut and a little mustache that I’m sure will give you a job…