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Knowing no reliable antidote, doctors too often stood by helplessly as a victim sank from coma into death. Last week, when a "suitable antidote" was finally announced, it seemed obvious-benzedrine, a stimulant as widely used as the barbiturates...
Cathie (Deborah Kerr) represents wifely charm in a mousey woolen bathrobe, a muffler around her neck, sleep in her eyes, a cold in her nose. In an early-morning coma, Robert (Robert Donat) moves speechless and heavy-lidded about the drab little flat. First, the clean collar, the neat cravat. Then a cup of tea, a glance at the clock, a peek at the barometer, and down the stairs and off to his job as a bookkeeper, a symbol of hopeless, conventional timidity...
Politics. Eisenhower's part of Germany was in a political coma. Everything Nazi had been outlawed, but denazification was progressing against great obstacles (see INTERNATIONAL). The details...
...patient is given increasing doses of insulin each day until a day arrives when he goes into a coma. On succeeding days, he gets the same dose or slightly less, with the object of keeping him under about three hours. He is brought out by a sugary drink or injection, after which he has a psychiatric interview and a big, late breakfast...
...front bedroom of the big, stucco house on Main Avenue. One morning last week he was stricken with a cerebral hemorrhage. For a day he was conscious of the August sun on the hackberry trees and lilac bushes which he had planted. Then more fever came, and coma, and his old heart stopped...