THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1950.
BERNARD WICKSTEED.
Analysing the electrical responses of the brain to stimulation of the visual centres by
flashes of light. Dr. and Mrs. Grey Waller at work in their laboratory,
Changing a
character
man
by
20-minute operation
of it—is being thrown on the dark world in- your skull.
hain lines of advance
PSYCHOSURGERY.
has a method
An obsession
Dr Walter is rather modest,
Faulty part
ØBSERVATION
in Darkest Africa, where-
Wives can be bought on the
never-never
THE SCENE: A village steadily higher
spirals."
in Darkest Africa. THE TIME: 1950.
In upward
I tried to picture an in- Blated wife going upwards in spirals, but the chief, who was evidently a student of the radio speeches of Sir Stafford Cripps. went on talking.
parent
which bought his own wives prives were low, but when he comes to marry off his boys he Ands there'a a wife-sellers' market.
'VE been sitting in the shade of a banana tree in front of a mud hut
Take, for instance, a talking to an African chief with a couple of dozen fans and about egonomic conditions daughters, he sald. He may have in the post-war world.
He complained at the dif- feulty he had getting the 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-
What con be do? In order fort wives for his own sons he's got to get as much as he en for his daughters. And the prices go spiralling up.
SU
"Well," 1 said, "wouldn't it be
plained about the high cost better to serap the whole syn-
"Oh, dear, no. We cvullo't do that," said the chief, adjust- Ing his top-hol. "There are to
Interests, many vested
That would be a form of the capital levy. Every man with an un- married daughter would ery out that he was being robbed.
Wealth in wives
The way such machines live of buying a wife, Twenty fem and marry for love, as we IGIT-more and more Dr Freemali
Considering how compact the
witen he astonishing how their simple lives suggests how years ago
first do? It's a quaint Idea but that takes only a minute. He brain is, it's
we ourselves may manage our married you could get quite reens to work." inserts a thin spike under the rarely such faults eccur. eyelid above each eyeball, und-
a good wife in any of the It was only five years ago that problems. kineks it to the brain with a
villages round Nairobi for inallet.
Bentle deways our new wave analyser found bail pre- We are on the threshold motion with the spikes, and the theta waves, which
an outlay of 30 goats. vously been masked by other great mysteries, The job is done.
things.
Now they were a shock thering price. You'd be lucky to the invented the wary analyser mcles suggests that much pick up a utility model for himself, and it was he who apparently free or random br -
30 goats, and they have found delta wares, and also he haviour in animals, even "eng- and his attractive
ban fetching as much ious" pursefulners, is really
comarjuence of cum-150, sion that he had splic I of enorming potential sigi- plexity.
felling was no Koel
him he cance.-Ed.]
He printer to a girl golnat by Paint. Then he was frucelo-
When a complicated, purpene-and said: "Look at flut ong, for ad We find thefa waves in bad el moche breaks
Instance. down and
·1Inw alle till thinks he has mized,
people, iri
people the catise
101 Ive means typhilis, but he doesn't mind a tempered
early match do you think 2411
had to pay for also meel, we often fred it Lest to! Auer, bold but reasonably safe
children.
remove th faulty component brain operations on patienta with mental symptoms,
We've been working on them altogesher in the hope that the ver rince, and now we're be rest will function after a festron.
NE man was a hopeles care
2 ELECTROENCE. O rough a mistakrat obses- found theta renees-a discurrry only, a
who wife
PHALOGRAPHY,
3. CYBERNETICS.
Psychosurgery
Tun
a
The catch will be of course,
if he DOES get syphilis. Sta
i won't care.
There father
Just about 100 years ago.
in the U. S. had a Many a man crowbar accidentally through his head from temple to temple. People were amazed to find him still alive.
The crowbar was with-
He still lived. In drawn. credibly, he recovered. More amazingly still, he wasn't any longer a rather crotche- ty fellow but a most agree- able chup.
It became a classic case in medical history.
Carefree
-
catch of thes
Hoinx
back
have
by....
In
W.
patiente Bone normal ure. married and hard children.
Aro
Sebentists wondering
whether perhaps they might not
have created n
of Fran Sort henstein motion,
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Dr. GREY WALTER M.A., So.D.
finnct
ginning! engrise
Ber
I said I imagine.
couldn't
I'd never bott wife, I 243216 for
the nothing.
"Niel Much
caw,"
Roats ha answered, ralsing
HIS
system of buying a
based on an age economy, and isn't as crazy
you'd think. We don't have stocks andi
shans
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batiks un you do. Our wealth is our land,
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Temale
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they take
20
18:
so much
stuck they
koekt -- enwa and Benny goals - and our wonen."
Get the idea? In-
of stend
pulting another pound, in the tank they put another cow in the field. Instead of buying a savings certificate another wife.
to It'
Similarly, in #inental break-got repeti- ove patterns. It's down surgery may de troy. almost like read. fiending mental mechaninia-
tch as in preftumtal teuvozomy“. il man's thought and we Or, by interfering with either think we ran get bail or machine in errțain enns an indication of trolled waya, w. may tell from what he is liable ine" wuetien, or the way it ta da.
breaks down, how it works We've
explained, Of course, as be these
The brain interference can be he could have bought her theta waves in harden in the form of flickering eht or
Italnant system for
Tout!
| his bands in horror. Her father wouldn't faise a billy goat loss, He didn't know what the world was coming to.
the
Every
family has on land, so many head of
and so many women. It
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ed delinquents irritant sounds, Brain in Chanistany goats down and the rest hand over a girl as a wife to and violent cris en behommed and distorted like in easy payments. Lots of hus- another family they are giving
racin fren intions if one CABREGS
hls up rome of their capital.
for her.
mit and
we
th, but in
Quite the thing
We Pan provoke them and the right frequency of poling as a chief It wasn't the expect in ordinary people by annoying signal. They have relieved the symp-
Have they them with flickering lights and foms of inanity, cured the insanity? On will it unpleasant mds, or by giving remetune; be hereditary and be then a pleasant stimulus and handel on to their
thus spreading the dilat
children, then withdrawing it.
1916 leucotomy was Bru Not long ago there was a test tried to help people wonying on a thin before ae art for about poin particulely that
He was pain in
world, to Jelly violrner,
a lot of worst
found to have burutil.
IN course of time (particus larly during wars) other
thin the dret pas leucot my the to waves, Agehalet todd prople who had brain in- juries in the front of their cut here was on a gal a couple the court aint them and pre- be liable to years br with about dicted he might
heads survived with this in the Tuce. How the further violence. Cheerful character change.
In the Thirties, Professor Exaz Moniz, in Lisbon, couldn't help noticing that after operations on tumours in the front of their brains patients emerged as more carefree citizens.
don't wel the pain belany i kodbe, my culler to touch when
stor
Conte,
'Writing'
Of course the court, at this tate, could take no artion on a thy from a lot of wavy lines, ichtern momhs later the man
thol someone.
HWOL
Having located WHITE BOW LIVE U
ELECTRO ENCEPHALO
GRAPHY citerien "br in-waiting."
Plenger. feel he cot:bl electrical mitte ercalations which re og ron-
So, in 1939, he operated Back in 1929. Haus deliberately on come hope nt Jenn, first
less mental cases-especi- record the
ally people insane through tourly beneath our skulle.
obsessions.
He bored a hole in each temple, inserted
A
Sound-seeing
and
something back
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If she is divorced and returns Besides, wives bought on the
purchase family the nover-mver system didn't work to her
less a tlis- for price is returned, us hard as those you paid on the nail. They knew that if count for each child.
Your E theory is that when you you not in arrears with think you may be making a instalments they'd have to
Flectrical . rupl
or electro. imel, chemical model in your brain of what you want to do.
HO
much
From the African point view there was nothing
system until wrong with the this awful business of the in- flate or rocketing brides going upwards la spirals.
'Ceiling' wives Until the contrary is proved it
ASKED the chief if it wasn't possible to stop the rot by Devalued wives will be as uned that mental pra
re: have physical representa putting a celing price on wives tion in the run in some form.
Cum se duhe with Ash and
England. He said WHEN the cost of living goes
W
print trud in Come
up in Europe you Africa, but
it fore banknotes to pay
for
the
I kan an American weientist | potatoes in who has been working on att had bren ..t sera fis enalde a blitt man tort
things. In Africa, when "ste, by travering the shape it work. of objects into round-porticu-
I there with
married cost of wives goes up, you have Indy the chips of print, so the
African daughters were the to increase your goal and rew blind could "rea"
me under the skin as people circulation.
The only control bride-price
11. theta
And if you can make a blind with house to ri. mn" you can make any-rcuit of a chaner lu
was a rullicking black work on them and thus, pedip, thing "re" bomb inchided,
market. reditve vukat behaviour
Irritation
Walter is
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Can
banknotes. But row, unlike wife have to eat, and with brides at
their present price there Dr W. Grey
in more stock than the land "I format whether it was Director of the Paysiolo Pinch or the New Yorker," the support, and vast tireas are be-
Ingering gent Department at the Burden chiet went on.
through the coming dust bowls Neurological Institute. Dorn.rings in his curs, "bul one ut
overlocking. Kommen City, Missouri, May them had a joke about foo anay
We've learned a great deal E possibilities of this theory 1910, Edurdod Westminster and eattle chasing too few
THE
from thee waves, and post we
From blunt
have an elaborate electrical
knife like a paper knife (so
na not to eut blood vessels)
Brain which analyses them.
15 never
MA
wives. "There's only one thing Jor
Cambridge.
1
CHEF!ROUT
time to line. Ammat of irritation
Flare
7'he Barden Institute is a terten
at hi regeurch into bruin and mental
for
wives.
World Cupyright)
-London Express Service.
I is and going
It was very funny, but it wasn't " said the African chief who entirely true.
rends the Times and listens to "There are plenty of
the BBC and that is to devalue I've got 17, and I know where wives I can get as many more, as
pound." want.
real The
trouble Inflated they're
as
you've done the
We found that the waking levels! A study of international fiction and direuse,
completely news makes that fairly clear.. in each hole, and passed it rain
function
a natural pro- A man with up and down to separate the Passive. Its
earch continently for infor
for fuston
fhtla of
Wives, brain tissue, which is rather ... tion from the senses.
instance, wouldn't make a par- like jelly.
When the eyes are shut, the
desirable ticularly
Foreign might (though he part of the brain concerned with
rhythmic Secretary visual sipants shows electricni waves at about 10 per make, a very good :oldier), back-cut the nerve fibres. second called alpha waves.
Draw your own conclusions
It separated the front part of the brain from the
One theory is that they are a
The results were start sort of systematie searching for and see how immense the possi- ling, with a good percentage visual information. When the bilities are!
of spectacular cures.. A few rys open, the search is presum months ago Professor Moniz bly successful
Was
are checked.
Nobel awarded the
Prize for Medicine,
Fine results
IN 1940, two Americans took
und the waves
Slow waves
N sleep, the alpha waves are replaced all over the brain Blow waves at about It up paychiatrist Dr Free. by large
called delin Dr Watts, three per second man and surgeon
rhythm (no connection with who'd been Mississippi musle).
Thele patients were hopelessly degraded: prople
inconceivable that It is not there could be a theta waves registration systern, like the pre- w.nt Inger print system. It could apply to people suspected of violent tendencles.
'Steering'
“YDERNETICS, the third line
of research, is a word coined
by Professor Wiener, of Boston.
eating 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 flaw results, conscious through brain injury direct themselves to a goal can be, studied as a group, whether "The operation is called "pre, or disease.
they pre machines, animals, or frontal leucotomy."
Many epileptles have larger socletles, since the laws of goal- The same
year, Professor and more regular brain waves, seeking and control are the same Golla, of the Burden Neurologi-
for all These may be evkience
cal Institute at Bristol, arranged
of
for the operation on some appa- "crossed Ines" between different
rently hopeless cases in Britain. brain circuits.
One of these patients is now
The traditional assumption that obly living creatures have Independent, complex, unpre-
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 the takes almost
too much trouble about small things). Another is manager of a factory.
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nmi neilong of the body, and Some of the modern self- people at directing, "purposeful" machines now inevitably
some times there is a "wrong can do far better than wo can number" or a "crossed line." such chores as computing the Very many successful cases
a feed-back stresses in a clant neroplane or the fight of a rocket. Others are thave been, dopo now. A good and when there is surgeon can do it in 20 minutes round a closed ring the system more like toys working models
#local anaesthetic.
bursts into oscillation,
of simple animals.
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