Word: comas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...patient is given increasing doses of insulin each day until a day arrives when he goes into a coma. On succeeding days, he gets the same dose or slightly less, with the object of keeping him under about three hours. He is brought out by a sugary drink or injection, after which he has a psychiatric interview and a big, late breakfast...
...front bedroom of the big, stucco house on Main Avenue. One morning last week he was stricken with a cerebral hemorrhage. For a day he was conscious of the August sun on the hackberry trees and lilac bushes which he had planted. Then more fever came, and coma, and his old heart stopped...
There is a doctor in Mexico City who gives insulin for practically anything-typhoid fever, syphilis, peritonitis, malaria, rheumatic fever. Dr. (and Lieut. Colonel) Donate Perez Garcia gives enough insulin to bring a patient to shock stage (perspiration, high pulse, coma, high blood acidity), then he injects a solution of glucose by vein to neutralize the insulin and bring the patient to. Mixed with the glucose is the drug ordinarily used to fight whatever disease he is treating. Dr. Perez Garcia believes that the insulin makes the bacteria succumb more easily to the drug...
...World War I, the reason for Austria was ignored. The treaties forbade union with Germany, failed to provide a substitute anchor. With nearly nine-tenths of her territory gone and all of her old relations with the rest of the Danube Valley disrupted, easygoing Austria slipped forlornly into a coma, unable to live and forbidden to die. Decay set in where gaiety had been. Vienna with nearly 2,000,000 became an oversized head; the rest of Austria, with less than 5,000,000 where the old Empire had over 50,000,000, was the dwarfed and sickening body. Until...
...Price of Peace. In 1938 the old warrior fell into a sudden coma, ill with rheumatism, arthritis, uremic poisoning. He was 78. The newspapers trotted out their ready-made obits. But two months later he showed up at his son's wedding. In 1939 he made his last pilgrimage to France...