After shopping in Johnson City yesterday, we went to the McDonald’s next to the mall. This doesn’t happen very often, but circumstances conspired against us and we like their coffee. I ordered two coffees, one tasty apple pie in a cardboard box, and a cheeseburger for Gerda who, every other year or so craves a McDonald’s cheeseburger like [...]
November 12, 2008
A Christmas Party Time Saver
Another reason I would rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
Today in 1935 – The world’s first modern frontal leukotomy is performed in a Lisbon hospital by Portuguese neurologist Antonio Egas Moniz.
Moniz’s leukotomy (or leucotomy, from the Greek for “cutting white,” in this case the brain’s white matter) soon became [...]
