¶ West Virginia, first state to make wholesale use of the mutilating brain operation, lobotomy, in mental-hospital patients (TIME, June 22, 1953), decided to lay aside the knife and see whether it cannot get better results with ataraxic (tranquilizing) drugs. Of 775 patients operated on, 268 have been discharged from hospitals, but the state is not following up the cases to see how they have made out.
¶ Supercharged experts from all over the world met at Oak Ridge, Tenn. to discuss advantages of supervoltage X rays (2,000,000 to 45 million volts) and radio-cobalt devices for treating cancer. The consensus:...
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