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...wits like a normal human being. Dr. Sakel applies his treatment in four stages. For two weeks or so, according to the patient's reaction, he administers increasingly large hypodermic doses of insulin. When the insulin doses become powerful enough to cause insulin shock (profuse sweating, coma), Dr. Sakel is ready for the second, or shock phase of his treatment. This consists of inducing coma for several hours a day for several days. This is the dangerous state. If the patient's pulse falls below 35 beats a minute (normal: 70) or if he develops an epileptic convulsion...
Mary's Hospital or anywhere else. On the day that the Press published the President's formal itinerary, including a visit to Minnesota's Governor at Rochester, Floyd Olson moaned, "Don't worry, it's for the best," lapsed into a coma, died...
...lameness was due to congenital clubfoot of the talipes equino-varus type, affecting the right foot only." Ill at ease with men the poet turned to women and there "his success to some extent palliated the pain which deformity had inflicted on his pride. . . . Byron died in uremic coma, a not uncommon end for le ban viveur." Christopher Columbus, after siring Diego by his wife and Fernando by the mistress of his widowerhood, contracted syphilis which Dr. Kemble contends is a New World disease. "With his limbs rigid and useless, his brain affected and his heart enfeebled, Columbus lingered...
Last week one of the oldest and most famed furniture companies in the U. S. came completely to life again after five years of coma. In central Michigan, at the dejected heart of the old line furniture industry, the idle Grand Rapids plants of Berkey & Gay had served many a Depression-worn manufacturer as a symbol of paralysis. Last week Berkey & Gay was counting orders received at its first spring furniture show since 1931 while thousands of Grand Rapids citizens, filing through its show rooms, glowed with prospects of new jobs, new business, new publicity...
...since 1925, carries a little alphabet board on which he deftly spells his mute revelations (see cut, p. 37), among which is the declaration that he is in an "infinite state." He became that way, he says, after kissing an ancient holy woman named Hazrat Babajan, remaining in a coma for nine months...