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Show DfLYDUKDESGRIBES WILSON'S COIITII Cerebral Trombasis Affected Left Arm and Leg, But Brain I Power Never Abated BALTIMORE. Feb. 11. the Baltimore Balti-more Sun publishes a copyrighted dispatch dis-patch from Washington in which was given an interview with Dr. Hugh H. oung. of Johns Hopkins hospital at IJj'lliiuuro, on the condition of President Presi-dent Wilson. Dr. Young has been one of the physians in attendance upon the president. Dr. Young, in pari, said: "From the very beginning the medical medi-cal men associated with the case have never had anything to conceal. When I first saw the president in October, a crisis had arisen of such gravity, owing ow-ing to the development of prostatic obstruction, ob-struction, that an emergency operation to relive this situation was contem plated, but by a fortuitous and wholly unexpected change in the president's condition. the obstruction began to disappear. j President Organically Sound j "The Improvement in this respect! which has been steady, is now complete. com-plete. Tho president was organically sound when I saw him first, and 1 1 found him not only organically sound when I visited him last week but fur- ther. all the organs were functioning! in a perfectly normal, healthy manner. 1 "The president's general " qondltion j and specifically the slight impairment of hts left arm and leg have improved more slowly, it is true, but surely, steadily. There have been no setbacks, set-backs, and rumors to this effect are rubbish. I Cerebral Thrombosis Affects Limbs : "As you know, in October last, we diagnosed the president's illness asj cerebral thrombosis, which affected 1 his left arm and leg, but at no time! was his brain power or the extreme vigor and lucidity of his mental processes pro-cesses in the slightest degree abated. This condition has from the very first shown a steady, unwavering tendency toward resolution and completo absorption. ab-sorption. The increasing utility of the left arm and leg, greatly impaired at first, have closely followed on this improvement. im-provement. The president walks sturdily stur-dily now, without assistance and with-' out fatigue. And ho uses the still ! slightly impaired arm more and more every day. "As to his mental vigor, It is simply sim-ply prodigious. Indeed, I think in many ways the president is in better shape than before the illness came. "You can say that tho president is able-minded and able-bodied and that he is giving splendid attention to af-iairs af-iairs of stale, and that wc have every assurance that he will "become progressively progres-sively more active in these matters with the advent of spring and sunshine, sun-shine, which cannot now be long delayed." de-layed." 00 When a woman wants' lo forget her birthdays as the years pass, we arc assured that she doesn't want to be J forgotten, too. j 11 1 h"im m 1 1 1 1 iiiiii twup imimiFLm a I |