Word: comas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hospital, growing steadily feebler, suffering from diabetes and arteriosclerosis, often on the point of death but always able to call upon his Tennessee toughness to pull him through. Last week, at 83, in the U.S. hospital at Bethesda, Md., Hull fell into a coma. He did not awaken...
Towards evening his doctor came and gave him a sedative, and left. The last words his visitor remembers were those of any man who is ill, questions like: "What time is it?" Around midnight Thomas suddenly went into coma. An ambulance rushed him to nearby St. Vincent's Hospital. During the next few days distraught poets, painters, sculptors and assorted hangers-on crowded into the hospital lobby, sometimes 40 deep. Thomas' wife Caitlin flew in from London, proved so distraught herself that she had to be put temporarily into a hospital at Astoria, L.I. That is where...
Some orthodox psychiatrists have performed thousands of lobotomies, in which a knife is slashed through the cortex, the most essentially human part of the brain. Some do not hesitate to give patients scores or even hundreds of electric or insulin-shock treatments, or to put them in an insulin coma. Alongside these procedures, the red-brick school points out, the use of chlorpromazine and reserpine is gentle. It can make the patient readily accessible if the overworked psychiatrist has a few minutes to practice psychotherapy on him. If psychotherapy can prove its worth even in psychoses, these drugs give...
...that burn continuously in the library. Please find out where this fault is and have it remedied at once"). In 1921, thinking he was about to die of pneumonia, he wrote out a complete plan for turning Trinity into a full-fledged university, and just before lapsing into a coma, told his wife: "Put this in an envelope...and see that it gets to J. B. Duke." When he recovered, he kept on with his plan, and soon J. B. found himself doing just as Few had hoped. Cigar in mouth and cane in hand, J. B. picked...
...better to...flay him until he dies, or hurl him over a precipice; or burn him or drown or suffocate him; or entomb him alive...or asphyxiate him in a lethal chamber, or press him to death or cut off his head; or produce a sort of coma by means of an electric current... For my own part...I have reached the conclusion - that no people can point to a method which is more beautiful and expeditious, or which is aesthetically superior to the time-honoured British practice of breaking their necks by hanging...