Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1920 — PRESIDENT’S PHYSICIAN ON PATIENT’S CONDITION [ARTICLE]

PRESIDENT’S PHYSICIAN ON PATIENT’S CONDITION

Baltimore, Feb. 11.—The Baltimore Sun publishes a copyrighted dispatch from Washington in which is given an interview with Dr. Hugh BL Young, of Johns Hopkins Hospital ,at Baltimore, on the condition of President Wilson. Dr. Young has been one of the physicians in attendace on the President. Dr. Young in part said: “From the very beginning the medical men associated with the case have never had anything to conceal. When J first saw the President in October, a crisis had arisen of such gravity, owing to the development of prostatic obstruction, that an emergency operation to relieve this situation was contemplated, but by a fortuitous and wholly unexpected change in the President’s condition the' obstruction began to disappear. “The improvement in this respect, which has been steady, is now complete.’ The President* was organically sound when I saw him first and I found him not only organically sound when I visited him last week but, further, all the organs functioning in a perfectly normal, healthy manner. “The President’s general condition and specifically the impairment of his left arm> and leg have improved more slowly, it is true, but surely steadily. There have been no setbacks, no backward steps, and rumors to this effect are rubbish. “As you know, in October last, we diagnosed the President’s illness as cerebral thrombosis, which affected his left arm and leg, but at no time was-his brain power or the extreme vigor and lucidity of his mental processes in the slightest degree abated. This condition has from the very first shown a steady, unwavering tendency toward resolution and complete absorption. The increasing utility of the left asm and leg, greatly impaired at first, have closely followed on (this improvement. ■ The President walks sturdily now, without assistance and without fatigue. And he use? the still slightly impaired arm more and more every day. “As to his mental vigor, it is simply prodigious. Indeed, I think in many ways the President is in better shape than 'before the illness came. ‘ “You can say that the President is able-mipded and able-bodied, and that he is giving Splendid attention to affairs state and that we have every assurance that 'he will become progressively more active in these matters with the advent of spring and sunshine, which can not now be long delayed.”