Word: comas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were routine with me," says Marclan. "Long cuts were made on my ankles so the doctors could insert needles into larger veins than they could find in my arms ... At times I would have convulsions, and there would be other times when I would lie for days in a coma . . . My father gave several direct-line transfusions to me before he had to stop because he couldn't stand to lose more blood. Then he had to go searching for blood donors again...
Died. Ada E. Foote Wrigley, about 90, widow of William Wrigley Jr., who minted millions from chewing gum, owned baseball's Chicago Cubs; after eleven years in a coma; in Pasadena, Calif...
...diuretic acetazolamide (trade name: Diamox), often given to heart patients to help flush the brine out of their systems, can so upset a congested liver as to cause hepatic coma-especially when it is given in combination with ammonium chloride...
...year-old head of the Roman Catholic Church had rallied earlier from a coma and partial paralysis that attended a sroke Monday, but other symptoms recurred...
...hooks from the edge of this zone of silence: they wake up unharmed. Promptly, of course, official hush-hush seals off Midwich and its sleeping citizenry. After two nights and a day the mysterious influence lifts, but the villagers awake to an even odder situation than their unreal coma...