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...President got into motion by visiting Bethesda Naval Hospital to call on several ailing legislators-including Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, undergoing treatment for a urinary-tract infection. While there, he dropped in on Viet Nam casualties in the neuro-surgical ward. One young marine, Lance Corporal Virgil Bohler of Silsbee, Texas, had been there in October when Lyndon came by while recuperating from his gall-bladder operation. At that time, Bohler lay unconscious and near death with a bullet wound in his head...
This time the President, obviously delighted by the boy's recovery, told him banteringly: "You didn't pay me much mind when I came to see you last October." "That's about right, sir," said Bohler. "I didn't even know you were here." Before departing, the Commander in Chief invited Bohler to drop by the White House when he gets...
...LEWIS P. BOHLER JR. Church of the Advent Los Angeles...
When the Russians entered Vienna last year, a party of Red Army surgeons stomped into the Hospital for Accidents. "Where is Bohler?" they demanded. "We want the nail." Dr. Lorenz Bohler, one of the best orthopedic surgeons in Europe was away-in a French prison camp. But the Russians got "the nail." By last week most of the rest of Europe had it too. The nail,* which Austrian Surgeon Bohler had used with wide success, is a remarkable device for mending broken bones, especially broken thighbones...
Last week their fears were dispelled. Surgeon Bohler, now back in Vienna, has performed nearly 400 nail operations, on old fractures as well as new, without a single infection. No interference with the blood supply has been observed. Bohler recently published description of the operation, Die Marknagelung Nach Kuntscher is one of the most sought-after medical books in Europe, and the German factory in Kiel which makes the nails is far behind demand...