THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1950.
Analysing the electrical responses of the brain to stimulation of the visual centres by flashes of light. Dr. and Mrs. Grey Walter at work in their laboratory.
man
Changing a
character by
a
20-minute operation
IGHT-more and more of it is being thrown on the dark world in
has a meihod Considering how compact the
The way such machines live Dr Freeman
minute. He bent 1, 11% astonishing how their simple lives suggests how that takes only a
under the rurely such faults occur. we ourselves may manage our inserts a thlu spike eyelid above each eyeball, and
problems. kicks it into the brain with a nallet. A gentle sideways We are on the threshold motion with the spike, and the
The Jab is done. of great mysteries. three main lines of advance
side your skull.
are:-
1, PSYCHOSURGERY,
An obsession
2. ELECTROENCE. (E through a (mistaken) obser-
PHALOGRAPHY.
NE man was a hopeless case
tion that he had syphills. It was no good telling him he Pecin't. Then he was leucoto- mirent. Je st thinks he has means typhilis, but he doesn't mind a bold but reasonably rufe bil. brain operations on patients with mental symptoms.
.
3. CYBERNETICS.
Psychozargery
Just about 10) years ago man in the U. S. had a crowbar accidentally raan through his head from temple to temple. People were amazed to find him still alive.
with- The crowbar was drawn. He still lived. In credibly, he recovered. More amazingly still, he wasn't any longer a rather crotche ty fellow but a most ngree- able chup.
11 became a classie case in medical history.
Carefree
IN course of time (partien, Jarly during wars) other people who had brain in- juries in the front of their hends survived with this cheerful character change.
In the thirties, Professor Egaz Moniz, in Jishón, couldn't help noticing that after operations on tumours in the front of their brains
patients emerged
carefree citizens.
-
The catch will be of course, if he DOES get syphilis. still won't care!
There
catch.
other Many
of these
leucotomy
لاوا
It was only five years ago that analyser found our new wave
hn pre- thea waves, which viously been masked by other things.
Faulty part
BERNARD WICKSTEED
where-
in Darkest Africa: ¿ Wives can be bought on the
never-never
spirals."
THE SCENE: A village steadily higher in
in Darkest Africa. THE TIME: 1950.
upward
tried to picture an In- Hated wife going upwards in spirnis, but the chief, who was. evidently a student of the radio 'VE been sitting in the sprechen of Sir Stafford Cripps,
shade of a banana tree went on talking.
in front of a mud hut
Take, for instance, s paren? talking to an African chief with a couple of dozen sons and about economic conditions daughters, he rald. He may have
bought his own wives
when in the post-war world..
prices were low, but when he le complained at the dif- comes to marry of his boys he
there's Andis
21 wife-sellers' ficulty he had getting the
market. BBC on his radio, the over- crowding on the buses and the late arrival of his air- mail edition of the Times.
But most of all he com- plained about the high cost better to scrap the whole sys- of buying a wife, Twenty tem and marry for luve, as we
when he first do? It's a quaint idea but years ago married you could get quite reems to work."
What can he do? In order to get wives for his own sona he's got to get as much an he can for his daughters, And 50 the prices to spiralling up.
"Well," I said, "wouldn't it be
#
a good wife in any of the
"Oh, dear, no. We coulda't villages round Nairobi for do that," said the chief, adjust- ing his top-hat. "There are ton an outlay of 30 goals.
Thai interests. many vested Now they were a shock would be a form of the capital BSERVATION of these ing price. You'd be lucky to levy. Every man with an un- married daughter would cry out Dr. Walter is rather marat, 05 Ife bivented the wave analyser models suggests that much pick up a utility model for that he was being robbed. himaris, and it
who apparently free or random be-80 goats, and they have. found delta wares, and also he haviour in animals, even "en"
was he
and his attractive wife who selus purposefulness, is really en fotching as much found theta waves- discovery only a consequenre of com- of enormous potential signi plexity. cane-Ed.
We find theta waves in bad-
also and
rowed le children,
#
'
Similarly, in a mental break- down surgery may destroy, the
* fiending intel mechani
such as in prefrontal leucotomy.
I'd never
wife.
Fut mine for nothing.
"Niaci goats
na
cow."
answered,
{c raising
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48 Wealth in wives
150.
aaper,
He
When a complicated, purpose- down unt rul machine breaks tempered people. itt prople the cathe Chnnot be easily traced, we oflen Bad it be th
faulty component her Prove the
Imagine. We've been working on then altogether in the hope that the ever since, and now we're be- rest will function after a fashion.
tinning to re-
S system of buying n He pointed to a girl going by
wife is based on an nge- and said: "Look at that one, for old economy, and isn't as crazy
In w Instance. much do you think for had to say
"T
SCORE.
as you'd think. We don't have slocks
and shares
and
-32
banks as yoit du.
I said I
couldn't
Our wealth is our
30
land,
our female
bought a
stockows
and
28
namy goats-and
our women."
26
10
Dr. W. GREY WALTER
of
Get the idea? In- stend
pulting
+24
nother pound in
22
+20
16
M.A., SO.D.
14
10-
61
purchase dis-
patients have
back skine normal fire, married and ha children.
Are
might not
Scientists wonderink whether perhaps they have created
Fra of port kenstein monster.
[1
Have they
his hands in horror. Her father the bank they pit another cuw wouldn't take a billy goat less. in the field. Instead of buying He didn't know what the world a savings certiflente they take was coming to.
engaire repeti- five patterns. 11's almost like read- ing thought and
we Or, by interfering with either think we can get brain or machine in certain con- an Indiention of troiled ways, we may tell from what he is liable the reactions, or the way it เถ co.
brenta down, how it works. found
Of course, as he · explained, We'vo
The brain interference can be he could have bought her these theta wayes in harden in the form of flekering light or the Instalment system for
delinquents irritant sounds. Brain mechanism and violent eri- en bejammed and distorted like minal and we radio transinisions if one
then find the right frequency of provoke in ordinary people by annoying signal.
find
We
Cam
ed
They have relieved the symp them with flickering lights and toms of insanity.
Or will it unpleasant sounds, or by giving ometimes be hereditary and be them a pleasant mulus and honded on to their
cure e insanity?
"children, then withdrawing it.
thus spreading the disease?
Sound-seeing
nother wife.
Every
family has so much many head of stuck ou land, o 50 and so many women. It
they
many goats dawns and the rest hand over a girl as a wife to in easy payments. Lots of hus- another family they are giving and chants difti
thut, t i h13 up some of their capital,
chlet It
something back wasn't they expect position as u
for her. quite the thing.
Besides, wives hought on the never-never system didn't work
If she is divorced and returns to her family the
hard as those you paid for price is returned, less a on the unit. They know that if count for each child. you got in arrears with your
stalments they'd have to
E theory is that when you In 1916 leucotomy was first Not long ago there was a test think you may be making a
or electro-ach. tried to help people worrying on a
a court for cort man Li fore
or ertrical about pain particularly that
He was chemical model in your brain of pain in the world, e petty violence.
what you want to do. these found to have a lot of worst
A psychiatrist weld neuralgia.
I think the first pain leucutony theta waves.
be able to here was on a girl a couple the court about them and pre- of years ago with atonis.ng dicted he might uralgia in the fare. Now the further violence. doesn't fear the pain before it come, per uffer to watch when
quas cothe.
'Writing*
Of course the court, at this dage, emild take no action on a theory from a lot of wavy lines Cehteen months later the man
hot romenite.
ALECTRO ENCEPHALO- " as more
GRAPHY just dectrical "brain-writing."
Having located there het means waves now gives us a chance to werk on them and thus, perhaps, reduce violent behaviour.
So, in 1989, he operated Back in 1929, Hans Berger, deliberately on some hope- of Jena, Bist found he couli the minule electrical less mental
cases-especi- record
fituly beneath our skulls
ally people insane through illations which to on con- obsessions.
He bored a hole in each temple, inserted blunt knife like a paper knife (so as not to eat blood vessels)
Irritation
amount of
Until the contrary is proved it
go, have physical representa will be assumed that mental pro- tion in the brain in some form.
10
'Ceiling' wives
possible to stop the rot by putting a ceiling price on wives ASKED the chief if it wasn't
as we'd done with fish and
From the
much
until
in-
of African point view there was nothing wrong with the system this awful business of the laled or rocketing: brides going
Devalued wives
upwards in spirals.
American scientist | pelatous in England. Ife said WHEN the cost of living goes
some
for the
I know an
tried in
up in Europe you who has been working on a hat had been
Africa, but it more banknotes to pay votem to enable a blind man to parts of Ea
Africa, when things. In "ee" by traposing the shape sett work. of objects into spund-particu
Fathers with unmarried cost of wives goes up, you have arly the shape of print, to the African daughters were the to increase your goat and cow blind could "rad"
came under the skin as people circulation.
The only And if you can make a blind with houses to let inan "e" you can make any-ult of bride-price
was a rollicking thing "gcc"-a bomb included.
amerket,
black
banknotes,
control But rows, unlike
wife have to eat, and with brides at their present price there
wives,
bowls
con
through
Dr W. Grey Walter ** "I forget whether it was In Inore stock than the landl Director of the Physioto Punch of the New Yorker," the support, and vast areas are be-
went on,
fingering: dical Department at the Burden chief
the coming dust Neatological Institute. Horn, rings in his ears, "but one of
overstocking. Kansas City, Missouri, May them had a joke about too many
for "There's only one thing We've learner a great deal plE possibilities of this theory 1910. Educated Westminster and eattle chasing too few
It was very funny, but it wasn't it," said the African chief who There
Cambridge. is. Dre enormous.
entirely true.
reads the Times and listens to from these waves, and now we
a certa
The time to time.
Burden astitute is for to have an elaborate electrical fram
ivtves. the BBC "and that is to devalue "There are plenty of brain which analyzes them,
irritation at hith research into brain and mental
the I've got 17. and I know where wives as you've done We found that the waking levels! A study of international function and discaar,
I can get as many more as I
pound." Tea!
Is trouble want. The completely news makes that fairly clear. never
inflated
and going function 13 to
they're A man with a natural pro- for infur-
waves, fer Juston of theta instance, wouldn't make a par- Foreign desirable licularly
(Though he might Secretary
make a very good soldier).
is
in each hole, and passed it bran up and down to separate the passive. Its
search continuously brain tissue, which is rather mation from the senses. like jelly.
When the eyes are shut, the It separated the front part of the brain concerned with visual signals shows rhythmle part of the brain from the electrical waves at about 10 per buck-cut the nerve fibres. cecond called alpha waves.
One theory in that they are a
Draw your own conclusions
The results were start sort of systematic searching for and see how immense the possi- Jing, with a good percentage visual information. When the bilities are! of spectacular cures. A few eyes open, the search is presum-
months ago Professor Moniz bly successful
are checked.
WAS
awarded the Nobel
Prize for Medicine.
IN
Fine results
1940, two Americans took
and the waves
Slow waves
IN sleep, the alpha waves are
replaced all over the brain
It up-psychiatrist Dr Free- by large slow waves at abou!
man end curgeon Dr Waits. three per second Their patients were hopelessly rhythm
called delta
(no connection with
degraded: people who'd been Mississippi music).
It is not Inconceivable that there could be nheta waves registration system, like the pre- sint finger print system. It could apply to people suspected of violent lendeneles.
'Steering
CYBERNETICS, the third line
of research, is n word coined by Professor Wiener, of Boston.
cating dirt for years and never We And similar waves In It means "steersmanship"--- speaking a word.
young babies and in adults un- the idea that all systems. which They, too, had fine results. conscious through brain injury direct themselves la a goal can Le studied as a group, whether "The operation is called "pre- or disease.
they are machines, animals, or frontal leucotomy."
Many epileptles have larger societies, since the laws of goul- seeking and control are the same
The same year, Professor and more regular brain waves, Colla, of the Burden Neurologi- These moy
cal Insillute at Bristol, arranged
evidence of
for the operation on some oppo- "crossed linea" between different rently hopeless cases in Britain, brain circuits.
for all.
Tho traditional assumption that only living creatures have Independent, complex,
unpre-
One of these patients is now One of the brain's jobs is to dictable behaviour is no longer
a secretary-and a good one link up the separate experiences Justined.
(except that she
too much trouble about small things). Another 10 now manager of a factory.
self-
takes almost and actions of the body, arid Somme of the modern
Inevitably in some people at directing, "purposeful" machines some times there is a "wrong can do far better than we can number" or a "crossed line," such chores as computing the Very many successful cases and when there is a feed-back stresses in a giant aeroplane ar the flight of a rocket. Others are have been done now. A good surgeon can do it in 20 minutes round a closed rind the system more like toys working models ‚with ̧n>locni anaesthetic.
of simple animals- bursis Into oscillation,
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