The Sentinel=record., 1913-09-30
SENATOR LODGE
 CRITICALLY ILL
UNDERWENT OPERATION FOR GASTRIC ULCER FRIDAY
 AND IS EXTREMITY ILL.
Slight Improvement in Past Twenty four Hours Leads to Belief he May Fully Recover.

Nahant Mass, Sept. 29.-United States Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, senior member of the Massachusetts delegation in congress who was op- erated on Friday for gastric ulcer was, according to his physicians to- night, mot entirely out of danger" !"
 News of the senator's Illness leak ed out by accident today Then it vas learned that for 2l hours from the operation his life had been de spared of
 The operation iiself, his physi- cians said was successful, but the patient, weakned by his labors at the extra session of congress did not have the vitality to rally promptly from the shock. His recovery, ac- cording to Dr. F. B. Harrington. one of his physicians, is largely mat ter of vitality and his sixty-four years and the fac. that he was a very tired man previous to the operation must be taken into consideration. Accord ing to Dr. Frederick Winslow, anoth- CT of the physicians, the senator's condition late tonight was excel lent"
 The silence of the Lodge house hold at Eastern Point was broken for the first time since the senator's re- turn from Washington by his secre. tary, K. E. Clark, who gave uot the following statement tonight:
 '"Senator Lodge was operated on last Friday for gastric ulcer The senator had been suffering for some days with what was though. to be an attack of indigestion but his condi- tion became so critical that the phy- sicians found an immediate opera tion necessary. Dr. Harrington and Dr. Winslow, who are in charge of the case today pronounced the sen. ator's condition entirely satisfactory. :
 Even some of the senator's most intimate friends were surprised to learn Of the serious nature of his ill., ness. He had returned from Wash lngton ten days ago complaining that he was tired and wanted a rest.
 In the seclusion of his estate on Massachusetts Bay he took many short strolls but on Wednesday he NN pi1liACn Ot 'sllt liANl lCdollS OCNCl- ity of his indisposition. Thursday he called in his family physician, Dr. Laurence Cusick, who found the sen. ator suffering from an ulcer of the stomach The growth was acutely developed, he said, and he advised an immediate operation.
 This met with opposition of Sena- tor Lodge, who thought such a step unnecessary and believed he was too weak to undergo an operation
 The family now greatly worried, called in Drs. Harrington and Wins low, who confirmed the diagnosis of Dr. Cusick and said that an opera tion was necessary to save the pa tients life Mrs. Lodge, it is under. stood, added her prayers to the doc tors advice and the senator submit ted.
 Dr Harrington performed the op- eration Friday, assisted by Dr. Wins low. A slight rally on Saturday was not satisfactory to the physicians and another consultation was held Sunday. By this time still further gain, though slight. offered more en- couragement and Dr, Winslow's re- port on the senator's condition late tonight as excellent" indicated 2d- ditional improvement
 Hundreds of telegrams and tele- phone messages poured into .he sen ator's home tonight when news of his illness became known. Secrecy has been maintained at the request of the senator himself. it was said.