Word: comas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This sort of attack leaves no lasting ill effects. But in a few victims, and especially those over 60, a high fever develops rapidly, the headache is so severe that aspirin and even morphine compounds give no relief; there are chills, nausea and vomiting. Some patients go into a coma or convulsions; if they survive such a severe attack, they may have suffered permanent brain damage. No medicine does any good against the virus...
...simple concussion, which usually leaves no permanent damage. But a hard blow can also bruise the brain, breaking some of its blood vessels and destroying nerve cells. This kind of damage can kill. The death in Manhattan last week of Benny ("Kid") Paret, 25, after nine days in a coma, from brain injuries suffered in his world championship bout with Emile Griffith, underscored the charge that "in boxing, the aim is to maim...
...ever admitted. His career was interrupted by World War I, in which he was badly wounded while serving in the Austrian army, and again by the anti-German sentiment of wartime U.S. audiences. In 1941, he was struck by a truck in Manhattan. He recovered after days in a coma, but for a time forgot all modern languages and could speak only Latin and Greek. After 1950, Fritz Kreisler did not play publicly and rarely played privately...
...request, Mister Sam went home to Bonham for the last time, returning to "those friends and neighbors who for so long have given me a love and loyalty unsurpassed in any annals." By last week the cancer had reached his brain. He sank into a coma, rallied, sank and rallied again. Finally he yielded, passed peacefully from his deep sleep to death. Said his doctor: "He just stopped breathing...
...patient is violent, or his illness stubbornly persistent, is he sent away to a hospital. His stay there is almost certain to be less than three months. In the hospital, he gets much the same treatment he would get in the West: drugs, psychotherapy (but non-Freudian), insulin coma and, more rarely, electric shock. The Russians have virtually abandoned their prolonged (ten-day) drug-induced sleep treatment because too many patients developed fevers or anemia. As soon as possible, the patient is discharged to his family, which is paid by the government to care for him if he is unable...