Word: clots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...artery in his brain, no longer able to withstand the pounding of the blood coursing through it under excessive pressure, blew out like a worn bicycle tire. Blood flowed into the brain cells of the surrounding grey matter, clogged them and made them useless. Then the blood began to clot...
Died. Millicent Abigail Rogers, 53, "Standard Oil heiress." granddaughter of Croesus-rich Oil Pioneer Henry Huttleston Rogers; after an operation for removal of a brain blood clot; in Albuquerque. A "best-dressed" society glamour girl of the '20s. Millicent made an unhappy career of marrying in haste, repenting in opulent leisure. Her husbands: 1) penniless Austrian Count Ludwig Constantin Salm (1924-27), 2) dashing Argentine Socialite Arturo Peralta Ramos (1927-35), 3) Manhattan Broker Ronald B. Balcom (1936-41). In later years, she Iived alone on a small New Mexican ranch in the shadow of a sacred Taos Indian...
Died. Major Rudolph William Schroeder, 66, who in 1910 graduated from homemade gliders to airplanes, went on to become a barnstormer, test pilot and high-altitude pioneer; of a cerebral blood clot after long invalidism following a stroke in 1941; in Maywood, Ill. The first man ever to penetrate the stratosphere in an airplane, gangling (6 ft. 2 in., less than 150 Ibs.) "Shorty" Schroeder set a world altitude mark of 38,180 ft. in 1920 (he blacked out, and came to only after the plane had dived over six miles). His pet saying: "There is no place for heroes...
...always present. Finally, in far-advanced arteriosclerosis, parts of the artery wall become hard and glassy looking. Often there are deposits of calcium. And large globules of fat (including cholesterol) help to narrow the arterial tube so that the blood slows down and may form a dangerous or fatal clot...
What had happened to his legs was worse. He had suffered two embolisms, and to prevent a third and perhaps fatal clot from reaching his lungs, the doctors permanently tied off the large veins in his legs. Whether he would be able to walk again depended on whether he could stand the excruciating pain when the smaller veins began to carry the extra load...