Word: coma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, summing up the work of two years, Dr. Toma (rhymes with coma) had remarkable success to report in surgery upon patients from Methodist-sponsored Pacific Home and Claremont Manor, in Los Angeles County. In more than 50 operations on men & women "up to 100 years" he had lost only one patient...
...Kate (who is obsessed by the mere idea of being in love). "I could open the veins of my right arm for that man." But Footman Charley is momentarily too busy to take Edie seriously. He is hovering outside the dying butler's bedroom, waiting for the brief coma between life and death when he can safely order young Albert to pop in and swipe the old man's private notebooks, priceless treasures of information about how to work the castle pork barrel-which guests can be touched for tips, what pennies can be pocketed undetected, what overcharges...
Doctors are always on the alert, Somogyi points out, for "insulin shock"-severe symptoms of trembling, sweating, convulsions and even coma-which follow when overdoses of insulin reduce the sugar content of the blood drastically. But, he argues, there may actually be a serious blood-sugar deficiency before these dramatic symptoms occur. Then the body's glandular forces go to work, building up the blood sugar. In such circumstances they overdo the job: soon, there is again too much sugar in the blood, and many physicians are likely to order more insulin -thus completing the vicious circle...
...recessed last June, Wiley Rutledge took his family to Maine for a vacation. There he learned of the death of his close colleague, Frank Murphy (TIME, Aug. 1). And there, last week, in a tiny hospital at York Village where he had lain for eight days in a periodic coma, Wiley Blount Rutledge, 55, died of cerebral hemorrhage...
...minutes later, the announcement came at last over the loudspeaker: "Kathy is dead and apparently has been dead since she was last heard speaking." Kathy's body had been found just below the tunneled opening. Her knees were wedged against her chest. Kathy had fallen into a coma, and then died because her cramped body could not get enough oxygen. There was no pain in her face...