The Washington herald., 1920-02-11
WILSON CURED,
DOCTOR SAYS IN
CASE DIAGNOSIS
H.E.Young, Johns Hopkins
Specialist, Gives Com
plete History Of Illness.
CAN USE LEG AND ARM
Weather Only Reason Why
Nation S Executive Does
Not Appear in Public.

For the first time since Presi-
dent Wilson was stricken with the
illness which has kept him prac-
tically a prisoner in the White
House for more than four months,
one of the attending physicians
has given a complete diagnosis of
the Presidents ailments.
The account. which appears in
the form of an interview with
DIR. Hugh II. Young. of Johns
Hopkins University. is contained
in a copyrighted dispatch to the
Baltimore Sun yesterday. DR.. Young
is one of the specialists who was
called in attendance on the case
by Rear Admiral Cary T. Gray
son. the Presidents personal ply
sician.
Had Cerebral Thrombosis.
Confirming absolutely the unoffi-
eiaI reports of the Presidents con-
dition at the time he was taken
i'll, DR.. Young says he was suffer-
ing then from cerebral thrombosis
or a blood clot on the brain. He
also reveals that at one time the
consulting physicians decided it
would be necessary to operate
upon the President. but that a
happy change in his physical con-
dition mada thiS afap uppacasSarv
DIR. Young declares that the Pres
ident today is much improved. and
that the only reason for his non
appearance in public is the present
bad weather. The anxiety expressed
over the Presidents condition has
been entirely natural. the physi-
clan says. and continues:
IF you think it would quiet un-
"asiness which is without founda-
tiOn and alIay alarm. which is
without justification. 1 shall glad
ly lay all the facts as to the dis
tinguished patients condition be-
fore the public. through the Sun.
Nothing to Conceal.
Prom the very beginning the
medicaI men associated with the
case have never had anything
to conceal. When first saw the
President in October. a crisis had
arisen of such gravity. owing to
the development of prostatic OBJ
struction. that an emergency. oper-
alton to relieve this situation was
contemplated. but by a fortuitous
and wholly unexpected change in
the Presidents condition. the OBJ
struction began to disappear,
The improvement in this respect,
which has been steady, is now COM
plete. 1t may have seemed slow to
;he outside world. but to those of
US who have watched the improving
conditions day by day and week by
week. 1t seemed little short Of mar
velous. The President was organicaIIy
sound when l saw him first, and |
found him not only organically sound
when 1 visited him last week. but
further, all the organs were function
ing in a perfectly normal. healthy
manner.
'Pari passu. the Presidents general
condition and specifically, the slight
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 Presidents 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 pro-
cesses in the slightest degree abated.
This condition has from the very
first shown a steady. uni avering ten
dency toward resolution and complete
absorption The increasing utility of
the left arm and leg. greatly i'm
paired at first. have closely followed
on this Improvement The President
walks sturdily now. without assis-
tance and without fatigue. And he
uses the still slightly impaired arm
more and more every day.
Mental vIgor Grows.
'As to his mental vigor. it is
simply prodigious. Indeed, / think in
many ways the President is in better
shape than before the illness came.
He is certainly greatly refreshed ana
strengthened by the uses to which he
has put what would have been for so
many men merely the tedious long
drawn-out weeks of convalescence
Then. again. it must be borne in mind
that as a result of the care that has
heen bestowed upon him by his i'm
--Cdiate and nv his official family he
has been relieved for many weeks
. ~ ,Er LuIden Of routine that he
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