BRAIN INJURIES
EXPERIMENT WITH MONKEYS
LONDON, September 2. The "Medical World," in an article, describes how United States naval surgeons substituted transparent plastic material for the skull bones of living monkeys and observed and filmed the effects of brain injuries.., The journal adds that the experiment foreshadows a new attack on the problems of concussion. "After providing a monkey with a transparent skull, it was possible to knock the unfortunate animal on the head and observe the reactions of the brain, which are difficult to describe," says the "Medical World." "There ate movements of a more or less skirling character which are reduced in amount if the head is fixed. "The Americans shot small missiles in through the plastic and the brain. The result was not the immediately fatal* effect on the brain which one might have expected from the sudden introduction of a high-velocity projectile into an almost closed, space. "It may have been a rather dreadful adventure for the monkeys, but it will help us to take the matter further." -
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 56, 4 September 1945, Page 9
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172BRAIN INJURIES Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 56, 4 September 1945, Page 9
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