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...filling. But not all human machines can burn such excessive quantities of starchy fuel as Elka Abrams stowed away and by the time she was 55 Mrs. Abrams was a victim of advanced diabetes. Fortnight ago, having shrunk to half her former size, she slipped into a diabetic coma, was bundled out of her house by police and rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital in a patrol wagon...
...amazed to find that Mrs. Abrams' blood was 1.72% sugar. That ratio, they decided, came close to the world's all-time sugar high. (Even diabetics rarely have a sugar content higher than one-half of one percent.) In a desperate attempt to rouse her from her coma, and help her liver digest a thick flood of sugar, the physicians pumped 1,000 units of insulin into Elka Abrams' bloodstream, "enough to kill an athlete...
Four blood transfusions failed to save Ernst vom Rath. He died in a coma without being able to understand a message from the Führer promoting him to First Class Embassy Counselor. The assassin, Herschel Grynszpan, meanwhile told his French jailers: "Being a Jew is not a crime. . . . I hoped President Roosevelt would take pity on us refugees. . . . I am not a dog. I didn't mean to kill. I lost my head...
Several days after the children were twinned Dr. Moran noticed that Clara was growing stronger, John weaker. Her red blood cells were increasing, his decreasing. As the tube stretched to 20 inches John grew sick and dizzy, finally developed acute anemia and lapsed into a coma. Giving up the graft experiment, Dr. Moran quickly cut the Siamese twins apart, found that Clara, like a vampire, had drained out John's blood through a net of capillaries which had formed on John's end of the tube. No capillaries had formed on her end of the tube...
...theatre in general muddles through, but the Alexandria sinks into a coma. First it turns into a movie house (see cut) featuring Screeno night. Then it stoops to burlesque, complete with striptease. Then the police raid it, board it up, leave it grimy and forgotten. At the end the fabulous invalid is once more sitting up in bed: a band of young hopefuls, led by someone who might be Orson Welles, sweep out the dust and start rehearsing...