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Injured in a factory accident in 1943, Engineer Robert Steger survived an operation for removal of a blood clot from his brain, but never regained consciousness. In Cincinnati's Bethesda Hospital, he was fed through a tube, gained weight, and seemed not to age. Last week, after what appeared to be the longest coma in medical history, Steger, 52, died from "deterioration caused by inactivity...
False security, leading to overexertion, can be far more tragic. A man may have made a good recovery from one heart attack, so that his electrocardiogram looks almost normal. But at the very moment of the reading, a clot may be forming in a coronary artery which will kill him next...
...prescription to ward off death from coronary thrombosis (a blood clot in one of the arteries that supply the heart muscles) was offered last week by Dr. Donald D. Reid of London's School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine: "Don't be unduly upset by the risk of coronary disease; take the elementary precaution of being born a woman; don't become a doctor [because their coronary] death rate is 20% above the rest; live in the quiet of the country; avoid anxiety and overeating. In other words, laugh but don't grow...
...done it once himself. He pulled the embedded tooth, took out the dead nerve, plugged the base of the tooth with porcelain to prevent discoloration. Thereafter, he departed from standard practice in two ways. Instead of sterilizing the tooth with alcohol (which he feared might injure the blood clot necessary to hold the tooth in place), Dr. Slattery used aureomycin. Instead of ramming the tooth back into place by force (which he feared might injure the gum tissues), he inserted it as gently as he could, patiently held it in the socket for 20 minutes, while the first soft clot...
...hours, Jan's mother & father took turns holding the tooth in place, while the blood clot, which was acting as a natural cement, grew steadily harder. Last week Jan Dockin's tooth seemed to be firmly rooted, healthy new tissue had grown around its base, and Dr. Slattery was confident that it would serve Jan indefinitely, short of such complications as another tumble on the sidewalk...