Word: gasbarrini
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...