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...morning last week the doctors finally got their chance. The President woke up feeling poorly, and called for Major General Wallace Graham, his personal physician. Dr. Graham found that he had a low fever, decided he had contracted a mild virus infection-his first illness, beyond simple colds, since becoming President. He was asked to stay in bed. Eyeing the patient, the doctor also decided that it was time to make him hold still for a thorough physical checkup...
...President got up the next day and worked stubbornly at a pile of congressional bills. He did the same thing the day following. But the fever continued, and on the morning after that, shaved, dressed and with a faintly defiant air, he allowed himself to be driven to Walter Reed Hospital...
...fever disappeared after the first day. He ate well, slept well, kept trying to whale away at his work, and actually managed to act on 233 bills during his three days in the hospital. But this took some doing. A chest man examined him. An abdomen man examined him. An eye man examined him. So did a heart man. Before he was through, eight different specialists had thumped, pummeled, probed, peered and questioned...
...girl named Jean Smith was Dr. Clark's next miliary case. She weighed 79 lbs., had an agonizing, rattling cough and had trouble breathing. Moreover, says Dr. Clark, the X ray of her lungs "looked like a snowstorm." Under treatment with isoniazid she soon got rid of her fever, cough and shortness of breath. Jean has eaten...
Almost as heartening are the early results in tuberculous meningitis. Dr. Clark has treated several cases which had relapsed after courses of streptomycin. After 80 days of streptomycin, eight-year-old Elsie still had a fever; she had TB germs in her spinal fluid; she was mentally clouded and suffering spasms. Within a month, isoniazid changed all that, and not long after, Dr. Clark was able to take Elsie to the circus...