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...that I feel the way I did when I came in." Then, by way of illustration, the President pulled up his blue knit sports shirt and let the whole world inspect the ugly twelve-inch seam in the flesh under his right rib cage where doctors had removed his gall bladder and a kidney stone...
...Keep On Doing." This was a sharp change of tone from the first three days after the operation that removed his gall bladder and a kidney stone Oct. 8. For that period of time, the President had seemed to be simmering with energy-as patients often do immediately following surgery. The anesthetic had barely worn off when he was signing bills, dictating telegrams, calling relatives with medical bulletins, approving appointments, and largely behaving as if he were still in the oval office...
...years on the other side of the ropes turned out a dozen world champions, among them Jersey Joe Walcott and Floyd Patterson, whom the ever hopeful Florio hoped to see gain his crown for the third time in next month's match against Cassius Clay; of complications following gall-bladder surgery; in Jamaica, Queens...
With the development of antibiotics and safer anesthesia, removal of a gall bladder is now a safe though still a major operation. Only about one-half of 1% of patients die as a result of the operation, and most of these are in poor health as the result of other diseases. The President was in good health. Physicians saw no reason to suspect any connection between his gall-bladder trouble and his bouts of kidney stones in 1948 and early 1955; he had made a full recovery from his heart attack, which came later in 1955. The danger...