The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-02-20
WILSON is SOUND
IN MIND And BODY
In Better Shape in Many Ways
Than Before Illness, and His
Mental Vigor is Prodigious.
ONLY WEATHER HINDERS HIM.
Improvement Slow, Sure and Steady,
Says Or. Young of Johns Hopkins.
Was in Grave Condition
In October.

Baltimore.-The Baltimore Sun prints
a copyrighted interview with DIR. Hugh
H. Young, Baltimore physician, who Is
one of the specialists who treated the
President.
DR.. Young, who is connected with
Johns Hopkins University, was In
formed by the Suns correspondent OF
the renewed anxiety manifested In
many circles at the capital as to the
Presidents actual condition.
The correspondent told him that the
| announcements of continued improve
ment so frequently made are not con-
firmed by public appearance, or by any
other outward signs of renewed health
This impatience is most natural, said
DR.. Young, and the President Is impa-
tient, too, but please place the blame
! where it belongs-not upon the patient,
who has surpassed himself; not upon
his medical advisers who really have
done better than you could have eX-
pected of them; but upon the weather.
1t has been absolutely the worst i'm
aginable weather for a convalescing
| case
This anxiety and solicitude has not
escaped me, DR.. Young continued, and
it is quite natural, in view of the i'm
portant role that the President is called
upon to fill in our national life. If you
| think it would quiet uneasiness which
Is without foundation and allay alarm
which is without justification l shall
gladly lay all the facts as to the dis
tinguished patients condition before
| the public through the Sun.
From the beginning the medical men
associated with the case have never
had anything concealed. When l first
saw the President in October crisis
had arisen of such gravity, owing to
the development of prostate obstruc-
ton that an emergency operation to re-
lieve this situation was contemplated,
but by fortuitious and wholly uneX-
pected change in the Presidents condi-
ton the obstruction began to disap-
pear.
The Improvement in this respect,
which has been steady, is now COM
plete 1t may have seemed slow to the
outside world, but to those of us who
have watched the Improvement, day by
day and week by week, it has seemed
| little short of marvellous. The Presi-
dent was organically sound when I saw
| him first. and l found him not only or
| ganically sound when visited him last
week, but further all the organs were
n a nnrfnntlU
| 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 processes in
the slightest degree abated. This con-
dition has from the very first shown a
steady, unwavering tendency toward
resolution and complete absorption
The increasing utility of the left arm
and leg, greatly impaired at first, has
closely followed on the Improvement
The President walks sturdily now,
without assistance and without fatigue.
And he uses the still slightly impaired
arm more and more every day.
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 and
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 convaiescence
Then, again, it must be borne in
mind that as a result of the care that
has been bestowed upon him by his i'm
mediate and official family he has been
relieved for many weeks from the bur-
den of routine that he has carried with
out an interruption for so many years.
His frame of mind is bright and tran
| quill and he worries not at all. He
knows that he is now quite up to his
| lighting weight; in fact, he weighs quite
few pounds more than he did when
we put him to bed. His eyes are bright
and his complexion shows the glow of
health.
OF course, l do not mean to convey
the impression that the President does
not find his long confinement at times
very irksome. OF course, he is champ
| ing at the bit, but he has borne up I'M
der his trials.
I hope it won't come, but you can
rest assured that the President is
ready and willing and, what is more,
perfectly able to dig himself out if that
new avalanche of snow and ice that is
announced should come along. In a
word you can say to all who are nat
urally soicitous ass to the condition OF
the President that all goes well except
the weather on the banks of the Poto-
mac. You can say that the President
| is able minded and able bodied and
that he is giving splendid attention to
| affairs of state, and that we have every
assurance that he will become progress.
| sively more active in these matters.