The_Invention_of_Surgery

fully published, and it would be up to another researcher to unlock the secrets of nerves. Camillo Golgi (1843–1926) was born an ...

Golgi to publish the world’s first drawings of neurons. Ironically, Golgi concluded that the complicated tangle of nerve fibers ...

unimaginable heights. Golgi believed in the reticular theory of the brain, but Cajal was able to show that the brain was instead ...

endured years of tedious exertion, squinting over the eyepiece of his microscope, encapsulating the landscapes of our microscopi ...

job working for Uncle Sam in the public health system. Fortunately for Mahlon DeLong, MD (and humanity), the National Institute ...

facial muscles is initiated from the motor strip in the mid-portion of the hemisphere—Dear Reader, if you touch your scalp above ...

that detailed the bizarre story of heroin users in the Bay Area who, overnight, became PD sufferers. Dr. DeLong stayed at Johns ...

integrity, thus checking the devolution of a cell’s status from healthy to cancerous. Many of our hormones act in a similar fash ...

With the success of experimental subthalamic lesioning, the obvious next step was to begin precise radiation therapy treatment t ...

billboards with earnest-faced injury lawyers, but an intrepid surgeon in another country could be the one to perform the breakth ...

had suppression of the tremor ... I thought, aha, this might be the solution.”^31 There can little doubt that Benabid’s discover ...

movement, and the act of raising a glass of water to the mouth an embarrassing impossibility. However, with an instantaneous ini ...

The implantable devices of the future will not just deliver a haphazard electrical pulse, but will instead function as recording ...

TWENTY-ONE Cyborg Future and Homo Electrus “In days gone by, surgery was all about blood and guts. In the future, surgery will b ...

decorated with dandelions and have a sunken pit where excavated trees formerly found anchorage. Generations of medical students ...

A week later I see Mr. Dowdy at the medical center. He is waiting in the lobby, seated by himself in a waiting area. Here is my ...

breath, the shape of the lips, the movement of the jaw, and tactile vibrations of the voice box to synthesize an understanding o ...

oftentimes retracing the shape for emphasis. She can barely speak, and I feel so sad for this innocent victim. I turn away from ...

But what about the love story between the Dowdys? Of senses lost, companionship, assistance, and guidance? The inspirational cam ...

Christopher Duntsch is gripping because a surgeon’s treacherous incompetence is the worst form of betrayal we can imagine.^1 My ...