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O pening the skull had never seemed more difficult to Wilder Penfield than it did on that cold December morning in Montreal. Staring at his sister’s shining white scalp, shaved for surgery on the heavy German-made operating table, he felt weak. It was 1928, and Penfield was one of maybe two dozen neurosurgeons anywhere in the world. The profession was new, thrilling, and shaky—as likely to kill as cure. Although Penfield and his protégé, William Cone, were starting to see improvements in their results, the field was still a Wild West with few rules, not even against operating on...

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