Word: coma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Portuguese Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar took a nasty spill at his summer residence, São João do Estoril, when a deck chair collapsed under him. Soon after an operation for a blood clot on his brain a few weeks later, he sank into a coma that kept him near death. His government stood by uneasily, waiting for his recovery. By September, the medical prognosis was that he would never be able to resume his duties, and Lawyer Marcello Caetano became Premier...
...other side of the Heidi story [Nov. 29]: Small town, two channels, football on both of them. Rotten weather, ten children, nine of them running, leaping, screaming and fighting. Baby can't walk, thank God. Father in absolute coma, doesn't see, hear anything but football game. Mother a pitiful, broken creature, swilling beer (small town, no LSD available) making dinner; will they ever stop, grow up, sit down? Finally, 6:55. Mother sits down with Sunday papers. Children settle down. Cut to Heidi, end of game on television. Father goes completely berserk. Tough, there are eleven...
...countless victims know, infectious hepatitis is almost always a nagging, disabling disease, with some symptoms that persist for many months. But in a few cases, perhaps three out of a thousand, it is a fulminating infection that throws the victim into a coma and may cause death within a few days. Only in the past four years has an effective treatment for this form of hepatitis been developed; one man who is walking proof of its value is Peace Corps Volunteer John M. Bayne...
...Knocked Out. Four days later, John Bayne was in a coma from what doctors call acute yellow atrophy of the liver. The virus had damaged so many liver cells that metabolic wastes were piling up and poisoning him. Alarmed doctors notified John's father, Peter F. Bayne, a school administrator in Claremont, Calif., and the Peace Corps called on Dr. Charles Trey, a South African-born research physician now at Harvard. Trey managed to get to Bombay in two days. He estimated that 90% of young Bayne's liver had been knocked out and gave him only...
Bayne had transfusions totaling 14 pints in Bombay, but remained in a coma. To make sure of an adequate supply of hepatitis-free blood from fellow volunteers, the Peace Corps chartered a plane and flew Bayne to Colombo, Ceylon, where the hospital ship Hope was anchored. Aboard the Hope, after more transfusions, Bayne emerged from his coma and began a slow but so far steady recovery. Last week, back home in Claremont, he felt strong enough to begin walking again. He can expect to be completely recovered in about three months. All he can remember of his brush with death...