1950-04-08 — Page 11

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,

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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

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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."

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Dr. W. GREY WALTER

of

Get the idea? In- stend

pulting

+24

nother pound in

22

+20

16

M.A., SO.D.

14

10-

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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

print

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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