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...fairly well after that, but soon he began to fail. For four weeks he fought tenaciously to live. Doctors performed two more major operations. It seemed that no ordinary man could withstand such punishment, but incredibly, MacArthur clung to life. Then at last he let go, drifted into a coma. His great will was no longer a match for his old body...
...December, 1962, on an icy highway outside Moscow, a light car crashed into a truck, and Russia's leading physicist was pulled from the wreckage all but dead. His body was crushed from head to thigh; he was in a deep coma for seven weeks and clinically "died" four times in a single week. Miraculously he survived. And last week word came from Moscow that Lev Davidovich Landau, 56, had finally been released from the Neurosurgery Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. But the Nobel Prizewinner (it was awarded to him ten months after the accident) still appears...
Some chance. In the ninth round, Bethea unloaded a series of bombs and Ernie toppled to the canvas. Rushed to a hospital for "observation," he asked for a drink of water, sank into a deep coma, and died of a brain hemorrhage -boxing's tenth fatality...
...Brigham doctors were well aware that pregnancy is notoriously hard on a normal woman's paired kidneys. Various degrees of blood poisoning, including the deadliest form known as eclampsia (marked by coma and convulsions), are somehow involved in a pregnant woman's kidney disturbances. Could a single kidney bear the added stresses of pregnancy? The question became a crisis early in 1956 when Wanda Foster and Edith Helm went to Boston from Oklahoma. The twins were 21 years old and both were married, though neither had yet had any children. Edith's longstanding kidney disease had become...
...bones. A little lead produces no symptoms and usually no damage. But it takes only a little more to bring on symptoms that are bafflingly similar to those of other illnesses: bellyache, nausea, vomiting and either diarrhea or constipation. At different stages come irritability, lethargy, rigidity, convulsions and coma leading to death...