Word: castroviejo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leader Wanted. At week's end, when the Argentine Senate, predominantly conservative, accepted President Ortiz' resignation, Argentine liberals knew that he could have given them at best only a very sick man's leadership. The New York eye specialist, Dr. Ramon Castroviejo, had flown home, explaining that, while he had been willing to operate, the President's own doctors had advised against...
...Buenos Aires airport, Dr. Castroviejo stepped out of the plane into an acute embarrassment, Dr. Ramon Cas-troviejo, a native of Castile, Spain, and now a citizen of the U.S., is a crack eye surgeon from Manhattan's Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center; Argentina's President Roberto Marcelino Ortiz is almost blind. The doctor's embarrassment was caused by the crowd at the airfield, who put two & two together...
...diabetes, according to the doctors who reported to the Senate's investigating committee, is of the mellitus type, productive of small hemorrhages destructive of the eye's retina, though he is "able to perceive objects with the aid of strong sunlight and positive periscopic lenses." Dr. Castroviejo is, on the other hand, famed as the author of over 400 operations involving the grafting of a normal piece of cornea in a diseased eye. Reduced to one-syllable words, the doc is good but the case is bad. Chance of recovery is, in the full sense of the word...
...Castroviejo at week's end examined Ortiz' eye, but remained prudently mum. Those sectors of the Argentine press which are desperately anxious to drag Argentina into the war hailed the doctor as a "mir-acle man." Finally the honest surgeon cried: "I'd like to get a change of scene, hide out in a nightclub somewhere, but even that's impossible here...
...Castroviejo can resuscitate Ortiz as a political force, he will indeed have proved himself the genuine miracle man the pro-war press terms him. His miracle will have been twofold: to save a vision generally considered lost to diabetes, to rescue a national policy in danger of being lost to stubborn neutrality...