Word: comas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sister Holland went on to pluck the other babies from their cribs, one by one, and hand them to Sister Margaret Thomas at the door. When the last of the 14 was rescued, she collapsed. She was taken to Battle Hospital near by, where she lay in a coma while doctors did their best to graft new skin on her severely burned arms and face, and baskets of flowers from grateful parents were carried in. That night, in the same hospital, two of the rescued babies died from smoke poisoning. Two others died in Dellwood. Next day, despite desperate treatment...
...spent weeks in a deep coma and recovering, bit by bit, the power to focus his eyes, speak, understand and remember things. Within a year, he was back at his mother's home (TIME, Aug. 18. 1952), but as he learned to walk and talk better and coordinate more efficiently, he became restless and overactive, sometimes violent. So he was admitted to the V.A.'s Brentwood Neuropsychiatric Hospital...
Serhant, who had been in a coma since he was discovered in his parked automobile Wednesday night, did regain consciousness for just a few moments yesterday. The Dunster House sophomore was not able to answer doctors' questions, however...
James K. Serhant '56, of Dunster House and Berwyn, Ill., remains in a semi-coma at Massachusetts General Hospital for the fourth day, although hospital authorities expect him to come through without any permanent brain damage...
Doctors said that they have no way of tellings the exact causes of Serhant's condition until Serhant comes out from the coma. Although they have several suppositions, they will not reveal them until they have conclusive results from examinations and X-rays...