Medical Definition of suppression. : an act or instance of suppressing: asa: stoppage of a bodily function or a symptom suppression of urine secretion suppression of a coughb: the failure of development of a bodily part or organc: the conscious intentional exclusion from consciousness of a thought or feelingâcompare repression 2a.
He was 53 years old. Jim Henson died from septic shock, aka sepsis, aka toxic shock syndrome. There are so many names for sepsis it can be confusing, but all these names mean the same thing; it is the bodyâs overreaction to an infection, in Jim Hensonâs case it was Group A streptococcus.
Captain Childs died in 1887. And upon his passing, Henson left the Katie Hines to take a job as a shop clerk for a furrier in Washington, D.C. Though his time at sea as a sailor was a thing of the past, Henson was still very interested in a life of travel and adventure.