Word: coma
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time nurse to Gifford Pinchot, Pennsylvania's famed governor; in Milford, Pa. Governor Pinchot, himself recovering from a minor operation, cut short his convalescence to visit her bedside a Grey Towers, the home of the Pinchots, and of Nurse McCadden. Hearing his voice, she stirred, woke from her coma, cried: "My boy! My boy!" But soon after she yielded to a fatal relapse...
Died. Captain Ricciotti Garibaldi, grandson of the hero; in Rome. After a period of coma, he opened his eyes, kissed his wife, embraced his daughters, to his son whispered: "Peppino, I am going; you continue the Garibaldian tradition," then died. Premier Mussolini ordered a funeral at the expense of the State, but it was refused...
...they occur whenever the parasite localizes in the fluid of the spinal cord or in the brain. Since they are conspicuous when present, the disease got its popular name from them. Sleep is a marked and invariable symptom of encephalitis, ranging from a light slumber to a profound coma...
...been about 29%, with the greater number of fatalities in cases where the onset of the disease was sudden. The onset is usually gradual. Symptoms: Headache, vertigo, eye troubles, changes in speech, a low fever, a peculiar masklike expression of the face, a lethargy which gradually develops into coma, or, rarely, into wakeful delirium...
Headache, vertigo, eye trouble, . . . a lethargy . . . coma...