Word: heaton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strode jauntily out of the Army's Walter Reed Hospital one morning at week's end, a walking testimonial to the report of his doctors. Having examined Ike for two days from head to toe, including barium studies of the gastrointestinal tract, Army Surgeon General Leonard Heaton reported: "The best results we ever had."* Beamed Ike: "It was so good that I would like to go back oftener...
...Nodular Implant. A few minutes before 8 o'clock Friday morning Dulles was wheeled into an operating room, put under anesthetic. Surgeon Heaton cut a small incision in the patient's groin to get at the hernia, kept his eye peeled for a sign of recurrence of the cancer. On the hernia sac he found a suspicious-looking nodular implant. He noticed, too, that a small amount of abdominal fluid was released after the sac was cut away. By Walter Reed's high-speed pneumatic tubes he shot the tissue and the fluid to the laboratory...
...Heaton finished the operation, stitched up the incision, delayed publication of the biopsy report overnight. The Secretary's immediate post-operative condition, he stated, "is quite satisfactory...
...Friend. Overnight, the nation's and world's fears mounted steadily. Why the delay in a report routinely quick in every up-to-date operating room? By Saturday morning the Walter Reed lab had made its final check. Heaton told Mrs. Dulles first. Then he told Dulles. Shortly before 9 a.m. the final word was passed to the President...
...Visited John Foster Dulles at Walter Reed Hospital, also dropped by to see his ileitis surgeon. Major General Leonard Heaton, who was abed with an ulcer, and Lieut. General Floyd Parks, retired commander of the Second Army, suffering a bone disease...