The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-02
HANNA DOCTOR|NG
TEDDY'S THROAT
Trough Rider'' Has Been
Talking Too Much.
HE'S UNDER TRAINING
Learning How Not to Call Good Folks
Ugly Names.
LESSONS TAUGHT BY PLATT FORGOTTEN
Or. Hanna is Also Treating Mai Mckinley For
Weak Back, His Famous Apathy Cure
is Being Tried on Both of These
Distinguished Patients.

Distinguished Patients.
Especial Dispatch to the Baltimore Sum-
New York, August 2S.-Teddy's throat
is causing great alarm at Republican
national headquarters here.
observations day by day makes it in
creasingly apparent that serious damage
has been done already, and DR.. Hanna,
the physician in charge of the case even
fears that the damage may prove ire
parable. Especially virulent symptoms,
which recently developed at st. Paul.
Mimi, have caused that experienced
practitioner to order peremptorily "strict
rest and quiet" for the patient. 1t is
hoped by DR.. Hanna that liberal doses
Of his well known private prescription
the apathy cure"-will counteract the
evil effects, but he finds difficulty in Sc
curing quantities of the raw material
preparation to meet the demands of his
present large practice.
Ever since his youth Teddys throat
has been a source of trouble. The dis
ease assumed a particularly malignant
form just after the war of 1898, when
he conquered the Spanish nation and
forced it to sign an ignominious peace.
II will be remembered that when he
returned from the war he became a can
didate for Governor of New York, and
in the canvass which he then made
the trouble with his throat assumed
5,S aggravated form DIR. Platt, the
physician who was then in charge of his
case, proved to be able to counteract
in marked degree the harm that was
done. He possessed wonderful, almost
hypnotic, control over his patient. who
obeyed his emphatic and often disagree
able orders with a docility in marked
contrast to the reckless defiance of all
things human which the same Teddy had
shown in shooting Spanlards in the back
at Santiago. 1t seems probable that this
remarkable personal control exercised
by DR.. Platt played a far greater part
in the treatment Of the case than drugs,
though some observers have said that
they could account for Teddy's conduct
under Or. Platt's tutelage only on the
theory that he had been drugged.
Though DR.. Platt was so successful in
dealing with the disease the naturally
intractable character of the patient made
the task great strain on him, and he
turned over the case to Or. Hanna in
the latter part of June, while Teddy was
on 4 visit to Philadelphia. The patient
had become attached with such lamb
like affection to DR.. Flatt that he was
unwilling to have the case transferred.
DR.. Hanna himself was markedly disin-
clined to add Teddy to his list, as he
had a patient, named Mckinley, in
Washington, who was suffering from
weak back the result of aggravated soft
ening Of the spinal cord and caused him
a great deal of trouble. But DR.. Platt,
with his usual persistence, had his way
and the case was placed in DR.. Hanna's
hands.
Though DR.. Hanna. it is admitted,
'rknows his business" he was at first in
clined to allow the patient too many
indulgences. Teddy, emboldened by the
change launched into a more reckless
use of his throat than ever before and
the consequences soon became apparent.
He went to the Rough Riders reunion
in Oklahoma and claimed credit for the
entire Spanish War and every. hing that
has happened since. Then he swung ever
into Kansas and claimed credit for every
thing that had happened before the war
including the Declaration of Independ-
But when he went to S,.. Paul and openly
asserted that the Democratic party was
the party of infamy and disgrace and
stood for '1awlessness and disorder. dis
honesty and dishonor." DR.. Hanna could
stand no more and gave strict, emphatic
instructions for rest and quiet, which
the ratient had to obey.
The physician insists that Teddy shall
refrain from using his throat until late
in September and shall use it then only
in the manner which DR.. Hanna pre-
scrihes Teddy comes in daily from his
hcme at Oyster Bay to consult his physi-
clan and receive instructions. When he
is permitted to resume the use cf his
throat, it is said by practitioners at Demo
cratic headquarters, he will be in reality
a human phoncgraph, speaking only the
carefully selected words, guaranteed not
to cause irritation, with which DR.. Hanna
has supplied him.
There is much interesting comment
among practitioners here as to the pre-
else nature of the malady. DR.. Hanna
calls it tonsilitis. but it is said by some
that Teddy has not even a symptom o
that disease. The characteristics are Sc
peculiar to the individual that observani
doctors at Democratic headquarters have
dubbed II "Hannattis." in honor of the
noted practitioner who is in charge of the
case. It is believed that the malady Is
closely allied to hysteria. and it also has
striking symptoms of what is called
bigheadibus. 1t is evidently bad case
Dr. Hannas Washington patient is alst