Jamaican pediatrician Cicely Williams introduced the name into the medical community in her 1935 Lancet article.
See Table 3 in the Lancet article.
The purpose of the graph according to the Lancet article is to show that these 3 mortality estimates all indicate an increasing rate of deaths over time.
The brainwaves of people who undergo near-death experiences often change, I saw a Lancet article on that just last year.
Paid expert consultants on both sides of the lethal injection debate have found opportunity to criticize the 2005 Lancet article.
As the Lancet article says: "Patients should be spared toxic effects and false hope."
The Lancet article says the findings are likely to apply to men as well.
"The H-reflex virtually disappeared in all four people when they laughed out loud," the Lancet article said.
His work was backed up by clinical investigations and epidemiological studies in scientific papers, including an influential 1967 The Lancet article.
The Lancet article was retracted for making false claims and because its author was found to be in the pay of litigants against vaccine manufacturers.