The Glenwood post., 1921-10-01
HON. Ed. TAYLOR
IN BREAKDOWN
Illness is Serious and His
Recovery Will be Very
Slow Say Physicians
RECEIVING BEST CARE

Considerable concern has been felt
in this community for the past several
weeks over the condition of Congress
man Edward T. Taylor of this city,
who some time ago suffered nervous
breakdown and is being treated in
hospital in Washington. 1t is needless
to say that Mr.. Taylor many friends
in this, his home town, as well As
those throughout his district, are anx-
iously hoping for his speedy and com
plete recovery.
The only definite news which has
reached The Post from Washington
concerning Mr.. Taylor's condition is
that contained in letter recently
written by Hugh High, Mr.. Taylor's
private secretary, to Walter Walker Of
the Grand Junction Sentinel, Mr.. High
describing Mr.. Taylor's ailment and
condition, as follows:
I" He has now been i'll for over three
months-in fact, confined to his bed
that time,-and, while he is still very
weak and his condition critical, he has
been holding his own fairly well for
the last two or three weeks. He is
not recovering or regaining strength as
we would like to see him do; but his
physicians say that the hot weather is
quite a detriment to his recovery and
that as soon as cool weather comes,
which should be within the next week
or two, he will recover rapidly-at
least they hope so. His heart is little
more regular, although it still skips
and jumps occasionally, and he has
attacks from it at times that leave
him very weak and exhausted. The
technical name of his trouble is
'Myocardic,' or weakened muscles Of
the heart. The doctors insist there s
apparently no organic trouble and that,
il he can pull through and get these
muscles again strengthened up, there is
no reason why he should not regain
his oldtime vigor in due time. But
the only possible cure is simply long
period of absolute quiet and rest rang
ing anywhere from three months to a
year. His recovery has been impeded
by the nervous and rundown cOndi-
tion of his system at the time he was
taken i'll.
1.-The physicians seem to think Mr..
Taylor's naturally good constitution
will eventually pull him through all
right, although it will take time. His
condition has been and still is critical.
The doctors have great many times
had to resort to the injection of mar
cotics and stimplants and other ex-
treme measures in order to keep his
heart especially in the zero
hours of the night, from l to when
the energy. and resisting power of the
human body is at its lowest point.
"Mr. Taylor is out at the Walter
Reed hospital, about miles out on the
outskirts of the city of WASHINGTON
n lis is one of the largest and best
....c. ned government hospitals in the
.ornt,, and he has the pest and high.
est sl;l,cd,. professional service that
there is il, the government service, and
is receiving every posusSle care and at
tention. Mrs. Taylor goes ont. every
night and sits during the night with
him, returning to the hotel during the
day for sleep and rest, and she is
standing the strain fairly well so far.
They do not allow him to receive Wis.,
tors or discuss business, etc, or even
read; andevery precaution is taken to
see that he has complete quiet and rest.
$50, as stated above, while his CON
dition is quite critical and uncertain,
yet the doctors feel that he will even.
tually pull through; but how long it
will take they do not even venture
prediction"