Word: comas
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...succumbed in his cottage in Ayot St. Lawrence, England, after a day-long coma and a "commendatory prayer for a sick person at the point of departure," read by a Church of England rector for the one-time professed atheist...
...41st day of her coma last week Patricia's father suddenly heard her whisper one word: "Mama." Apparently she was answering his repeated question. Then she slipped back into unconsciousness again...
Twelve-year-old Patricia Murphy of Tucson, Ariz., was in an automobile accident on May 14. Her grandmother and grandfather "were killed, her mother was badly hurt, her younger sister slightly injured. Blue-eyed Patricia suffered brain injuries and lapsed into a coma...
People with brain injuries often stay in a state of coma (absolute unconsciousness) for long periods of time. (A Cincinnati hospital has one patient who has been in a coma for more than seven years.) By this week Patricia's coma had lasted for 43 days...
Last week the New York State Department of Mental Hygiene announced that it had developed a gentler way of bringing on the coma which seems to relax sufferers from manic-depressive states. The treatment: intravenous injections of ether.t The ether solution is dripped slowly into the veins (in a technique similar to that used in blood transfusions) for 2½ to 3 hours. The treatment is repeated every day, for ten days to a month...