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...Robert Frost, 88, patriarch poet of the U.S., in Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital after surgery for a urinary tract obstruction complicated by a mild heart attack and a subsequent blood clot in his lung; Clifton Webb, 69, courtly film comedian, in a Houston hospital for vascular surgery; Mrs. William O. Douglas, 45, wife of the Supreme Court Justice, with lacerations of the forehead and left knee sustained in a car-truck collision in Georgetown not far from her home; Hugh Gaitslcell, 56, Britain's Labor Party leader, in a London hospital with pleurisy complicated by pericarditis...
...physicians who examined the bodies of the twins wrote: "In my opinion, Chang died of a cerebral clot. Eng probably died of fright as the distended bladder seemed to point to a profound emotional disturbance...
...excess of red cells in the blood) are especially prone to the pains of repeated angina attacks, and eventually to fatal shutdowns in the heart's arteries (coronary occlusions). Could it be that an excess of red cells makes the blood more viscous and more likely to clot? They thought it might...
...daughter, who hates him for "ruining the poor girl's life," who before six months are up has cunningly lured his wife out of his bed and back into hers. In the end the hero gets the girl back, but does he want her? Never mind. The clot is actually determined, in his decent average conventional way. to spend the rest of his life saying he does...
...close the artery with clips on each side of the stem. Dr. Gallagher was not satisfied with these methods because merely touching the aneurysm to attach a clip might cause it to burst with disastrous results. To destroy the aneurysm with no risk of bleeding, he wanted to clot all the blood inside it. To make the blood clot, he needed to get a foreign body into it-such as a hair. And to get the hair in without disturbing the aneurysm, he needed a hair gun. So the Navy made him an air hair gun. It is a muzzle...