Word: comas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Massachusetts General Hospital authorities declared early this morning that Joseph K. Serhant '56 is still in a coma and remains on the danger list...
...became hallucinations. A soldier drank from the sea. "It's fresh!" he cried. Many more struggled to the side, instantly convinced that a miracle had happened. Some even shared the hallucination. "He's right," they said, "it is fresh!" Those who drank too much went into a coma from which they emerged "crazed and suicidal...
...Each morning for 60 days, before breakfast, Bill was given an injection of insulin, which cuts down the blood sugar. Bill sweated profusely and became increasingly drowsy. The doctors gradually increased the insulin dosage, but were careful to stop short of the point where Bill would have lapsed into coma. At one point, Bill had a stormy outburst, then quieted down and showed his first grudging signs of cooperating with his psychiatrist...
...flew to New York to visit him, that she go back to Washington. By that time she knew the whole truth of his illness, which for some two months he had kept from her. On Friday word had come to her that Bob Taft had died in a coma, of malignant tumors...
...increasing the very hazard that he is trying to diminish. Drivers on the New Jersey Turnpike become hypnotized because the beautiful highway demands too little from them to keep them alert. If the highway itself does their driving for them, they may fall even deeper into drivers' coma. The cars will speed along the Zworykin highway in a wide and orderly stream, passing and repassing like strands in a braided belt. The drivers will have nothing to do; they can sleep or play cards or stare at the flowing road. Then some irregularity-an electronic failure or a blown...