Word: comas
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...hooks from the edge of this zone of silence: they wake up unharmed. Promptly, of course, official hush-hush seals off Midwich and its sleeping citizenry. After two nights and a day the mysterious influence lifts, but the villagers awake to an even odder situation than their unreal coma...
...then they were led away. It was impossible to see what happened behind the light, and Mrs. Frank cried: 'The children! My God! My God!' " In the hell of Belsen, Anne and Margot Frank lasted scarcely five months. They both became ill. Margot was in a coma for several days and was found, fallen from her bunk, dead. Anne was so sick that no one told her of Margot's fate. Says a fellow prisoner who watched: "Several days later she died peacefully, in the certitude that death was not a calamity...
Back to Infancy. But the human brain, especially in the young, has considerable powers of readjustment and a further capacity for retraining which medicine is now beginning to exploit. After a few days spent mostly in coma. Congrave perked up. His temperature dropped as the inflammation in the brain around the wound subsided. At the end of two weeks he could grunt a response to questions, and he was using his good left hand to help raise a glass to his lips. In another week, told to wiggle the fingers of his left hand, he could both understand the order...
...recent stomach complaint, her husband recalled that 37 years before, while washing dishes, she had been seized with cramps and collapsed on the floor. A physician had called it intestinal flu and put her to bed. For almost two weeks she had been very ill, sometimes in a coma, and had to be forcibly fed, but then she made a fine recovery, raised her one son to manhood...
...Penicillin and aspirin, the two drugs used for the greatest number of patients, are also, the two that cause the greatest number of harmful reactions. Commonest aspirin reactions are allergic, especially in asthmatics; massive overdosing (usually seen in small children) may cause coma and death...