Word: coma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are, to be sure, many cases in which it would do no good to have the family stage a death watch because the patient is in a coma. And such cases are becoming vastly more numerous now that medical science has learned to prolong the body's life, or at least some signs of life, long after the mind has become irreparably clouded. But Dr. Vanden Bergh says that he, and most doctors, have seen many patients who were not only conscious but alert right up to the end. Even with a patient who is technically comatose, there...
...world's best science fiction writer, author of The Martian Chronicles and Hollywood's It Came From Outer Space, Bradbury has come to think that the world has actually entered the machine-dominated sci-fi era and that the human soul is already deep in an electronic coma. Hence his plays, though they are set in the future, are actually hyperbolic allegories of the present...
Herbert C. Hoover, President of the United States from 1929 to 1933, died yesterday morning at the age of 90. He had been in a coma in his Manhattan apartment since Saturday, when he suffered an internal hemorrhage...
...most healthy people, the disease is usually marked by nothing more than a bad headache and moderate fever. But in some victims, especially the very old and the very young, it has devastating effects: headache, stiff neck, high fever and vomiting. Some patients have convulsions and lapse into coma; a few of the survivors suffer crippling brain damage. On the average, SLE kills 10% of those it strikes. Despite more than 30 years of research, no satisfactory vaccine has yet been developed to immunize humans...
...because doctors are not on the alert for it. And even when they suspect it, it is hard to diagnose. Its symptoms are the same as those for which the patient was taking antacids-nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain. In its later stages, alkalosis may bring on muscle spasms, fever, coma, and finally death...