Word: comas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spinal fluid. Many doctors believe that small amounts of surplus fluid must be drawn out to relieve pressure. that patients should be denied liquids. But Drs. Gross & Ehrlich consider drastic dehydration dangerous, achieve the same result in another way. They give hypertonic (heavy) glucose injections to patients in coma or shock. The glucose, thicker than body fluids, sucks out fluid from the tissues through osmotic pressure. thus reduces tension in the brain. ¶ Also harmful, say Drs. Gross & Ehrlich. is the common practice of lumbar puncture (spine-tapping) to examine the spinal fluid soon after a head injury. During...
...surgeon dreads, and watches for, post-operative shock. So precise is the body's harmony that even a slight disarrangement of tissues, a two-degree drop in temperature, and the loss of a cupful of blood may be enough to bog down heart and brain and produce a coma, prelude to death. Shock may also follow severe burns, wounds, lacerations, even blows in the solar plexus. Usually shock does not occur until several hours after injury. Standard treatment: warmth, blood transfusion, oxygen, water injections. But these measures often fail...
This pastoral was published in the Ecclesiastical Bulletin of Toledo (Cardinal Coma's see), then released to the secular press. The Spanish censorship (headed by Franco's brother-in-law, Ramon Serrano Suñer) clamped down on it. More over - according to report - the Government forbade the pastoral's reading in the churches...