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Died. Dr. Antonio Gasbarrini, 81, papal doctor since 1954, a gastroenterologist who attended the final illnesses of Pius XII in 1958 and his good friend John XXIII last spring; following a prostate operation; in Bologna...
Mazzoni, who quickly gave his patient still another transfusion and called in for consultation Roman Surgeon Pietro Valdoni and the Pope's old friend and personal physician, Dr. Antonio Gasbarrini of Bologna. When on Tuesday of last week the bleeding increased, the quaintly formal Vatican press releases, full of references to "the august patient," for the first time admitted the gravity of the situation...
There was new hope next day, and on Thursday the Vatican press service announced that the hemorrhages had been stemmed. Dr. Gasbarrini returned to Bologna, telling reporters that his patient had "a constitution of iron to go with his will of iron." As if to prove it, the Pope got out of bed, conferred on Vatican business, told one visitor that he hoped to see the end of the council...
...afternoon, when the barium had traveled to the lower intestine. But they found nothing more-certainly no sign of the malignancy they had feared. Then the question was what to do about the hernia. Operate soon to remove the hernia, advised the Pope's new doctors, Gastroenterologist Antonio Gasbarrini and Surgeon Raffaele Paolucci di Valmaggiore. No, said Chief Papal Physician Riccardo Galeazzi-Lisi, the Pope is too old (nearing 79) and not strong enough, and he would be too upset by the inability to carry on his duties. That was also the view of Switzerland's unorthodox...
...outlook was still chancy for a badly weakened man of 78, but by week's end the improvement was dramatic. No one was sure yet what had been wrong with him, but a measure of credit for the Pope's recovery was being given to Dr. Gasbarrini, 72, gastrointestinal specialist, who washed out the Pope's highly acid stomach with an alkaline solution, and discontinued the offbeat treatments of Swiss Dr. Paul Niehans (who injects animal cells into humans to replace worn-out tissues...