***** and glucose are put into the patient's veins by the physician anaesthetist to make up the loss of body fluids while surgeons saw into the brain covering. Lives are saved by such carefully planned teamwork. In many cases, early and adequate diagnosis of mental and nervous disorders can enable the highly-skilled neuro-surgeon to save a patient from death or insanity. This is the scene during a neuro-surgical operation on the brain in a Sydney hospital. March 22, 1941.