New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-12-25
Bulletin Says Prospects of Sur
geon's Recovery Are Favorable.
BROTHER HERE FROM WEST
Condition So Grave in Morning
That 1t Was Feared He Would
Not Survive Operation.

a bulletin concerning DR.. Charles Horace
Mayos condition was posted at the Pres
byterian Hospital early last evening, say
ing that the chances for the recovery OF
the distinguished surgeon were favorable
The bulletin read:
Or c. II. Mayo passed a restful day
At the present time his condition is salts
factory. Temperature and pulse better, and
prospects for recovery are favorable
IL was learned that in the morning the
condition of Dr. Mayo was very grave.
Fear that he might not recover from the
second operation was felt and the entire
hospital anxiously awaited word from the
darkened room overlooking Park avenue
where a fight was being made for a life
that had saved so many. But the only
word that came from the slckroom was
the meagre bulletin, unsigned.
DR.. William G.. Mayo. after a twenty
nine hours trip from his home in Roches-
ter Mimi, arrived at his brothers bedside
a little after 10 o'clock yesterday morning.
He was accompanied BY a nurse and was
met at the hospital by DR.. Joseph A. Blake,
who performed the second operation on
Saturday, as well as the first one ten days
ago
Until late last night DR.. w. G. Mayo re-
NAMED with his brother, and then, worn
out after the long journey and the all-day
vigil at his brothers side, he went to the
Hotel Netherland, where he retired.
Or. Mayo made the first fifty miles of his
trip on a locomotive. sitting beside the en-
gireer until he reached Winona, MINI.
There he boarded a special train for Chi
cago on the Chicago g. Northwestern Rail-
road. Two hours later he boarded the
Pennsylvania eighteen-hOur train for
New York, arriving here at $40 o'clock
yesterday morning.
Dr. G. II. Mayo was first operated on
for gangrenous appendicitis by Or. Blake
and two other surgeons. All facts relating
to the surgeons condition were suppressed
until II became known that a second opera
ton was necessary. The patient had de-
veloped acute cholecystitis, with galstones
Word was sent to his brother, and then
began the race across the country. 1t was
thought that the operation could be de-
ferred until Dr. William Mayo arrived
but Saturday afternoon the patient took a
turn for the worse. and Dr. Blake. as
sisted by DR.. G. +. Brewer and DR.. Charles
H. Peck, performed the operation.
For the last three days. it was said yes
terday Mrs. Mayo has occupied a room at
the hospital sitting beside her husband
when not sleeping.
Dr. Mayo and his brother are among the
most noted surgeons Of the world Their
father, Or. William Worrall Mayo. founded
the Rochester Hospital in their native city.
DR. Charles Mayo is forty-six years old,
four years younger than his brother, and
was graduated al the Chicago Medical Col
lege in 1883. He Immediately began prac-
Using in his home town. In 1899 he mar
RED Miss Edith Graham. Of Rochester
Mimi. whom he had known since child
hood. He was twice president Of the Min
nesota State Medical Society. His brother
who is equally distinguished, is a graduate
of the Michigan University. class of SO.
IT was while attending the annual CON
vention of the Southern Surgical Associa-
ton I'm Washington that DR.. Mayo was
stricken lie hurried 10 this city, where he
has many friends and an operation was
decided upon.