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Whipple said that the comet, which now appears almost overhead in the constellation Coma Berenices, is moving in a southwesterly direction and should become visible through small telescopes in about six weeks...
Ernest Lapointe, 65 years old, worn out by diabetes and the strain of war work, lay ill in a Montreal hospital. Once he stirred from a coma, looked up into the eyes of his wife and daughter. "You all alive?" he said. "Good. So am I. We'll celebrate. Give me some water. . . ." Then he died...
...days later, when the Senate in Washington confirmed his permanent cormmission as a major general, Adna Chaffee was in a coma. Occasionally, his wife and doctors heard him murmur something about the U.S. flag, saw his body stiffen to attention in the bed. He had hoped to die on active service, with his tanks and troops at Fort Knox, Ky. Sick since last year, beaten by pain, he gave up his command three weeks ago and went to Boston, where he could be with his friend and physician, Dr. Edward Delos Churchill...
...quantities from the pancreas of cattle. The fateful question was: Would insulin save human diabetics? Joe Gilchrist, a doctor and a classmate of Banting's, was a thin, hopeless, broken diabetic living on the starvation diet that in those days postponed for a little while death from diabetic coma. He got some insulin. In a few hours his head was clear, his legs lost their heaviness, he felt as though he were walking on air. Joe Gilchrist was one of the first of millions restored by insulin to a nearly normal life...
...Village and dropped a rack of bombs. One fell within 40 yards of where Chamberlain lay and the man who had said "I think it is peace in our time" shuddered. When the end was near they gave him drugs to dull the pain. Later he sank into a coma. After a while he died...