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...have just read your report on convalescing Philippine Leader Manuel Quezon in a Johns Hopkins Hospital bed, and his quandary as to which physician to obey when he wanted a drink [TIME, Nov. 12]. Señor Quezon had no qualms about what kind of food he wanted when well enough to eat. He consulted no doctor but his own instinct, and ordered his private cook to prepare for him the Spanish puchero-that pot which holds life's essentials for rich and poor alike, emblematic of the national well-being of a healthy people. A cabalistic piece...
...Patient Quezon quickly recuperated. To his bedside he summoned newshawks to say: "I'm going to beat the record here. I thought I was an old man. But I'm not. In 15 days I'll be dancing the tango. Dr. Young did a fine job opening...
Baltimore reporters who rarely get a chance to interview Great Men on their Johns Hopkins sickbeds greedily scribbled their notes. Senor Quezon went on to discuss his experiences with urologists: "When I left Manila, the doctors told me I could drink nothing intoxicating. When I reached Java I saw a doctor, and he said 'a glass of beer would not hurt.' So I drank beer from Java to Paris. In Paris another doctor said: 'You should not drink beer; wine is the only thing.' So I changed gratefully to white wine. Then a French specialist told me: 'You should drink...
...Laughing gaily, the wily convalescent called to his secretary, Manuel Nieto: "Get some glasses." In a few minutes merry nurses put glasses in all hands. Secretary Nieto poured the whiskey. One and all, including the distinguished patient, emptied their glasses to this Quezon toast: "We will drink the health of the American doctor in his own medicine...
...inventing, 30 years ago, the cystoscope which allowed Surgeon Young to explore the Quezon bladder before the operation, the South- western branch of the American Urological Association last week gave Dr. Bransford Lewis, 72, a gold plaque in St. Louis. Simultaneously St. Louis University, where he is professor-emeritus of urology, gave Dr. Lewis a commemorative gold medal...