Medicine: Great Men's Weakness

Prince Bismarck. President Wilson, President Harding, "Tiger" Clemenceau, Napoleon III and Alexandre Dumas fils had only one weakness in common: prostatic hypertrophy.

Last fortnight the Great Man of Argentina, fiery Dictator-President Hipolito Irigoyen, who is almost fanatically secretive about matters of state, frankly admitted that he has it too. He called in surgeons who decided to operate at once.

In Paris famed Raymond Poincare, President of France during the War, chattily discusses his prostatic hypertrophy, sitting up in a great armchair, surrounded by vases of lilies, roses, chrysanthemums.

"I was careless and walked...

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