Medicine: Interesting Experience

Medically the most valuable of all testimony about a disease is that given by a doctor who has suffered it. Instructive to doctors, therefore, was Dr. Harvey Cushing's account of a mysterious infection which paralyzed him for a time during the War (TIME, May 11). Equally instructive last week was Dr. Lucien Daniel Clark's account of the "interesting experience" through which he had just passed. Dr. Clark, 70, a Cleveland surgeon, was stricken with apoplexy and paralysis year and a half ago.

"While returning from a professional call," reported he in last week's...

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