Word: clots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steps to the door of the University of Pennsylvania Hospital. Suddenly he felt a stabbing pain in his chest; he broke out in a cold sweat, gasped for breath. His colleagues rushed him off to bed. A few days after this heart attack they found that a blood clot had formed in one of the chambers of his heart...
...confused with embolism. A thrombus stays in one place; an embolus, which might be a blood clot, or a pocket of air or oil, moves through the blood stream. If an embolus settles down, it becomes a thrombus...
...while working 15 hours a day, Dr. Tilney was struck by cerebral thrombosis (blood clot in the brain).* For six weeks he lost the power of speech. But his mind was as keen as ever, and he gave his colleagues detailed notes on the course of his disease. The devoted doctors at the Institute took turns sleeping in his house every night, came over in a band of five to carry his heavy, inert body from his study to his bedroom. Within a few months Dr. Tilney taught himself to scribble with his left hand, in six months wrote...
...Governor. In November 1938, good Mr. Horner fell ill, straightway became a man of mystery. In the last 17 months probably no more than a dozen people have seen him. His illness has been variously reported: a stroke, a second stroke, a third, a blood clot, a heart spasm, cancer of the throat, pneumonia, diabetes, paralysis...