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Army surgeons quietly announced this major triumph of World War II medicine last week. The chief credit for saving the lives of spinal cord casualties goes to penicillin and the sulfa drugs, which helped remove the greatest single danger-infection of the bladder and kidneys. But more remarkable than life-saving is the job 21 U.S. Army hospitals are doing in restoring these paralyzed men to something like normal life...
Next comes training of the paralyzed organs. By slow, patient use of a "tidal drainage" system, the paralyzed bladder and bowels are conditioned to empty themselves automatically at regular intervals. Learning to walk is more difficult. In most cases success depends mainly on 1 ) convincing the patient of the incredible fact that walking is possible, 2) exercises to strengthen' the arms and shoulders (which supply the power for swinging the legs). Finally comes training for a job that a man can do with head and hands alone...
Died. William Eugene ("Pussyfoot") Johnson, 82, genial, world-famed prohibition zealot; of a bladder ailment; in Binghamton, N.Y. No fainthearted saint, Boozebuster Johnson admittedly lied, bribed, even downed drinks to pile up evidence against the Demon Rum. Appointed by Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 to combat bootlegging in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), he got 4,400 convictions, lost five deputies, shot. On a teetotaling world tour in 1919, he cheerfully lost an eye but won admirers in a free-for-all slugfest with unregenerate London tipplers. Quiescent since 1929, Crusader Johnson once confessed: "The more I talked, the wetter the country...
Forest ("Nubbins") Hoffman, the Cheyenne Wyo. three-year-old whose parents celebrated Christmas in November because doctors did not expect him to live (TIME, Nov. 27), last week took his daddy's hand and walked out of a Denver hospital. After a successful bladder operation, he had a good chance to enjoy Christmases for years to come...
...crisp autumn Sunday. For a home in Cheyenne, Wyo. and a pale, three-year-old boy with a freshly barbered cowlick, it was Christmas. Ten doctors had agreed last month that young Forest ("Nubbins") Hoffman, 22 Ibs., bedridden for more than six weeks with incurable sarcoma of the bladder, would probably not live until...