The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-04-22
Says Wood Is Sound.
From the New York world.

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Two distinguished physicians, in the
most remarkable document yet put out
on behalf of any presidential candidate,
testified to the mental and physical
s%oundness of Gen. Leonard Wood. DR..
Harvey Gushing of the Peter Bent
Brigham hospital of Boston who per-
formed the operation, described a per
fectly benign tumor," Of which the gen.
eral has since had no symptoms what
SO ever" DR.. Alexander Lambert cor
roborat1l DR.. Cushing, announcing that
the REMOVAL of a tumor (Which had
affected General Woods left side) was
complete; that there was no danger
that the general would become insane
from 1t, and that there had been no
mental deterioration of any kind. It
was the late Colonel Roosevelt's sister.
Mrs. Douglas Robinson. General Woods
loyal supporter, who took the initiative
in offering this evidence publicly,
through DR.. Lambert, at an overflow
meeting at her home. Her drawing
rooms were damned to the doors with
fashionable and wealthy women in the
Wood following when, without pre-
amble, Mrs. Robinson said:
Our first speaker is one who has, per-
haps, the most important message to
give about the man whom both he and
l so ardently desire to see president Of
the United States. Several things are
constantly said about General Wood, as
things have been said about other can
didates, in the light of handicaps. One
of the things brought home to me ESSEN
Tally is that many people appear to feel
that his health is not what it should be.
friend and the friend Of Colonel Roose-
welt to tell from his physicians stand
point of his fitness to be president of
the United States.
The question of General Woods
health" said DR.. Lambert, has como
up at odd times for a long time. I knew
him before and after the Spanish
American war-after his lamenes., after
his o~peration-and was his medical d
wiser for a number of years. From my
professional knowledge of his condition
l told General Wood he must come out
frankly on this question; that the truth
never hurt any a To refresh my
memory / wrote DR.. Harvey Gushing, of
Boston, who did the operation.
When General Wood was in Cuba"
aid the doctor, Ibis desk was imrne-
diately beneath the large knob of a
chandelier. Jumping up in a hurry he
struck the middle Of his e on the
Knob or the Chandelier. Though ne was
hurt he thought nothing of 1t and con-
tinued his work.
It was later that the syst developed
and years before the general attributed
the trouble in his left leg to any serious
cause, when DR.. Cushing's operation
brought him full relief. DR.. Lambert
was at pains to explain how the cells Of
the right hemisphere of the brain con-
troll the motor activities on the left
side. He then read DR.. Harvey Cush-
ings statement Of the operation, which
vas subsequently sent to Senator Pen
rose. DR.. Gushing wrote:
At the operation a cyst was removed
from the foot center Of the right hem
isphere. 1t had been there many years.
1t was a perfectly benign tumor and
he has since had no symptoms whatso-
ever. The stiffness and awkwardness
Of the left foot, which were there before
the operation, will be permanent. His
mentality, however, was not affected in
the slightest and, SO far as any one
can tell his physical condition, he is in
absolutely perfect health and enjoys
such health as few of us have ever en-
joyed. He is the most vigorous and
sound human bing, physically and men
tally, that I ever saw.
'In plain words" said DR.. Lambert,
"a cyst was taken out of the generals
head about the size Of a mandarin
orange and 1t didn't bother him any
more than a broke leg. There is no
danger of his becoming insane from it1
There has been no mental deterioration
Of any kind.