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...schizophrenic or manic depressive state. But Britain's Drs. A. Spencer Paterson and W. Liddell Milligan tried a new machine that feeds into the brain a weak electrical current automatically adjusted to the brain's resistance. Instead of shocking the brain, the current puts it in a coma. Like the shock treatment, the new electrical shot-in-the-brain momentarily stops the patient's heartbeat and breathing. But after a course of comparatively mild treatments under electronarcosis, he wakes up a changed...
...ring's center, Sugar Ray Robinson, making his first defense of the welterweight championship, took the victor's bow, but he did no victor's dance: his opponent lay in a coma, and a doctor was examining him. Later, in his dressing room, Robinson asked: "Is the kid up yet? The punch only traveled six inches, I think." Almost as he spoke stretcher-bearers were taking Jimmy Doyle from Cleveland's Arena. A few fans recalled the words that the Cleveland Press's Columnist Franklin Lewis wrote earlier that day about how things would...
Next came an interlude of cowboy tunes, including The Old Chisholm Trail ("Coma ti yi youpy, yappy yay, yappy yay, Coma ti yi youpy yappy yay," which probably sounded like static to Russian ears), a talk on a new cure for hay fever (the U.S. has 5,000,000 sufferers), and a new method of exploring the Milky Way. When the closing theme, the Battle Hymn of the Republic, went out over the air, Soviet Russia was still at least as distant as the Milky Way. Just as the Voice of America signed off, the Voice of Russia (Moscow Radio...
...rambling Piedmont Hospital, Gene Talmadge grew terribly ill-he was suffering from hemolytic jaundice and cirrhosis of the liver. When the word got out, scores of policemen and firemen lined up at the hospital to offer blood. The Governor-elect was given transfusions. But he sank into a coma. One night at week's end he hiccuped loudly. Then his breathing stopped...
...Diabetic coma, the result of hyperglycemia (excessive sugar in the blood) and once the cause of most diabetic deaths, is now "an inexcusable complication, except when the coma is precipitated by infection or some other illness...