Word: comas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neuroses, others fought against irrational fears, morbid thoughts, hallucinations, a few had drifted into suicidal depression. But for all of them the treatment was the same. Strapped to an operating table, they got three quick jolts of electricity-enough to start violent, involuntary convulsions before they lapsed into anesthetic coma. Next a thin, icepick-like leucotome was inserted under each eyelid, hammered home through the eye socket and into the brain. Carefully manipulating the two icepicks, the doctor severed the connection between thalamus and frontal lobes in the patient's brain. The entire operation took only ten minutes...
...year, and though public health officials are shying away from the panic word epidemic they admit that the outbreak may prove to be California's worst. Day after day patients have been admitted to hospitals with splitting headaches, stiff necks and high fever, later to lapse into a coma which may last for weeks. Children and the elderly are especially affected; the virus does not so often strike adults in their prime. Unlike the Eastern and St. Louis virus, the Western form rarely causes permanent brain damage...
...Engineer Robert Steger survived an operation for removal of a blood clot from his brain, but never regained consciousness. In Cincinnati's Bethesda Hospital, he was fed through a tube, gained weight, and seemed not to age. Last week, after what appeared to be the longest coma in medical history, Steger, 52, died from "deterioration caused by inactivity...
...writes smoothly and lovingly. With a hush in his voice he describes The Hou". "But when evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour. It marks the lifeward turn. The heart wakens from coma and dyspnea ends. Its strengthening pulse is to cross over into campground, to believe that the world has not been altogether lost or, if lost, then not altogether in vain...
...given a lifetime to charity, "that they needed the money badly." While he was talking to the police, he began to feel ill. He was taken to a hospital bed, and the doctors gave their diagnosis: a cerebral hemorrhage. For two hours, until he sank into a coma and died, Brother Salesius prayed aloud for the two men who had robbed...