From the article...<p>&quot;Scoville lifted up Molaison’s frontal lobes with a spatula and reached far into the center of his brain. Then, using a silver straw, Scoville sucked out fist-size chunks of the medial temporal lobes on both sides of Molaison’s brain.&quot;<p>fist-size chunks? (plural!)  I&#x27;m hopefully imagining that this surgeon had freakishly small hands.