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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Hat pin trick #120347 01/17/2004 9:05 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 What would you call this figure? "One afternoon at six, when Dulcie was sticking her hat-pin within an eighth of an inch of her medulla oblongata, she said to her chum, Sadie--the girl that waits on you with her left side:..." She's doing brain surgery without a license! Within an eighth of an inch of pithing herself. No, I'm not lisping. In Comparative Anatomy, we "pithed" frogs before dissecting them, by sticking a needle into spinal cord, just below the base of the skull. Sounds like that's what Dulcie is doing. Committing suicide rather than lose her hat! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Hat pin trick #120348 01/17/2004 9:16 PM Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,475 California jheem veteran jheem veteran Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,475 California Within an eighth of an inch of pithing herself. What did they used to call that labotomy move that '40s docs did with a knitting needle through the occular orbital? Was it to sever the corpus callosum? And what was the deal with insulin shock treatment? (Vague and disturbing memories coming back to haunt me from a Frances Farmer biography.) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Hat pin trick #120349 01/17/2004 9:50 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 A Portuguese brain surgeon heard a lecture in New York about damage to frontal lobes rendering patients free from anxiety. So the brain surgeon went home and destroyed connections to frontal lobes in a bunch of paranoid schizophrenics, and they no longer were upset by their hallucinations. So some US guys copied him. And their patients didn't give a sxxx where or when they sxxx. I wonder if I could find that guys's name. I'll try. I'll be dipped in doggy doo-doo. I found it on the first try. It helped that I guess right on the guy's name - Moniz. More than you are likely to want to read, but anyway: http://www.deakin.edu.au/hbs/GAGEPAGE/PgLobot.htm Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Hat pin trick #120350 01/18/2004 12:27 AM Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,475 California jheem veteran jheem veteran Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,475 California Thanks, Doc. Moniz, monization. I knew, after typing it, that corpus callosum was wrong. What is the name of the severed connection between the frontal lobes and the thalamus? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Hat pin trick #120351 01/18/2004 12:48 AM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Dear jheem: at the moment, I haven't the foggiest idea. The course in Neuroanatomy was a nightmare. About all I remember from it now is spinal cord sections that when stained looked like Rorschach blots. I think the incision was just above the zygoma between the ear and corner of the eye. It was called a prefrontal lobotomy. I'm doubtful that I could find diagrams of it on Internet. I'll look, and if I find anything, I'll PM you tomorrow. Bill Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Hat pin trick #120352 01/19/2004 11:17 AM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Oh, not a PM! This is fascinating! See whether there's an illustration of the operation's being accomplished with knitting needles that, so to speak, unknit the worried brow. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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