Brain

Were Dr. Walter E. Dandy of Baltimore willing to brag (which he is not), this week he would tell of a brain operation he performed at Johns Hopkins Hospital two weeks ago on 18-year-old Oscar Flicker, freshman of the College of the City of New York and son of Samuel Flicker, realtor.

This operation was to remove a tumor, which proved to be as large as a league baseball,* from Oscar's brain. It was an operation that taxed all of the surgeon's knowledge and technique, his accuracy and...

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