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Eighteen years after that bicycle accident,Mr. Molaison arrived at the office of Dr. William
Beecher Scoville, a neurosurgeon at Hartford Hospital. Mr. Molaison was blacking out frequently, had devastating convulsions and could no longer repair motors to earn a living. After exhausting other
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Scoville contributed to the development of the aneurysm clip. His modification was to place a coiled spring with an axis parallel to the plane of clip closure. Over the course of his life
Scoville trained a total of 63 neurosurgeons, 46 from the U.S. and 17 foreign.
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