Show s E d LA MAY d HAVE IlL V L TO SO UNDERGO OPERATION P T TI awa I I CALlED T TO L DECIDE ID Dr Hugh Young of Baltimore Baltimore Will Say Whether Executive Goes Under Knife h It r act Q Oat IT W. W WASHINGTON Pl e President Wilson Vilson was f feeling l iii I well W rJ x tod r his physicians ians said the I condition from which he had hadi i been suffering for tor s several veral days was II checking the general improvement of ot the past two weeks I Th The doctors issued the following bulletin bulletin bul bul- letin White House 1225 p p. p m m. Oct October l er 17 1919 ft q 19 The president passed a comfortable I night and Is feeling well veIl this morning His temperature pulse and respiration rates are normal The prostatic condition con is not as satisfactory as yesterday yesterday yesterday yester yester- day and is checking general Improvement Improvement improvement Improve improve- ment of the past two weeks Signed GRAYSON RUFFIN STITT Dr Grayson announced he had called in Dr Hugh Young of Johns Hopkins hospital Baltimore one of the foremost foremost foremost fore fore- most specialists in the country on onI prostatic troubles and that he was expected expected expected ex ex- ex- ex I at the White House some time today During the morning the president president president dent was treated by Dr Fowler a Washington specialist who was called in when the president first suffered this complication several days days' ago Dr Young will make a thorough examination examination examination ex ex- ex- ex of the prostate gland to de determine determine de- de termine whether an operation is necessary necessary I de-I sary Dr Grayson said I The physician said the swelling of the prostate gland from which the I i president had been free all day clay yesterday yesterday yester yester- I day and the night before r returned turned in inthe inthe inthe the early hours this morning and caused some irritation While the trouble might only be minor In character Dr Grayson said there was no doubt that it had retarded retard retard- ed somewhat the progress the president president president dent had been making toward recovery ry Irritation accompanying the swelling of the prostate gland he explained was wasI calculated to affect adversely the nervous nervous nervous ner ner- I condition of the patient |