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...Lord to let me have the gift of perseverance." To one, he wrote with characteristic diffidence, "I gather this kind of cancer doesn't mean suffering in any acute form-I expect I'm not worthy of it." His last three days were spent in a coma. Once he roused, and a Lady Eldon at his bedside asked if he would like her to read to him from "his" New Testament. He replied with a faint but distinct "No"; then after a long pause there came from the deathbed, just audibly, "Awfully jolly of you to suggest...
...that he was told contained "a mild laxative." When contents of two suspect shakers were analyzed, their salt was found mixed with 2.36% by weight of atropine, a deadly white, crystalline alkaloid poison made of the nightshade plant. For adults, as little as 10 mg. of atropine can cause coma, and a salt-hungry canteen customer might presumably have shaken enough on his food to make himself pretty sick. "Tragedies were prevented," said Hazelhoff...
Lady Edith is feeling rather pipped, or she would shoot the python herself. From the reports of the villagers, it is a great, ropy beast-and it will creep forth to kill again after it recovers from a two-week digestive coma brought on by swallowing Lady Edith's cook. So Lady Edith, who runs an orphanage near Bihar, India, delegates the job of python stalking to a half-Indian, half-American Quaker youth named Peter Bruff. Though courageous, Peter is an abstracted, mystical young man. He is also a poet, and his work, a heroic poem about...
...southern New Jersey, other bulletins poured in to the state department of health. By week's end, the department reported that a strange and deadly malady was reaching alarming proportions: 19 people had been hospitalized, nine had died. The symptoms were the same: headache, nausea, delirium, then coma and convulsions. Some doctors thought it was bulbar polio; others considered it meningitis. But though New Jersey's health department had not yet issued a blanket diagnosis, most doctors thought they knew what it was: Eastern equine encephalitis, one of the most feared forms (a 75% death rate...
...killed by the millions. Describing Stalin's last days, in the first such account ever given a Westerner, Khrushchev told Harriman that for three days he, Beria, Bulganin and Malenkov had kept their vigil at Stalin's dacha while the great man lay in a final coma. Suddenly. Stalin awoke, and weakly pointing to a picture of a little girl feeding a lamb, "indicated by his gesture that now he was as helpless as the lamb. A few minutes later he died. I wept," said Khrushchev. "After all. we are all his pupils...