Word: gastric
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sharp contrast to last week's ringing statements that mental illness is no disgrace-Eagleton and his family were extremely careful all along to disguise the facts. When Eagleton was first hospitalized for shock treatments in 1960, his father gave out the story that Tom was suffering from gastric disorders and a virus. Eagleton's office gave the same reason for the 1964 visit to the Mayo Clinic. In 1966, when he returned to Mayo for shock treatments, his law office issued a statement that he was at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for gastric tests. Eagleton admitted...