Word: hydrocephalus
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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Jimmy Wedell was hunting ducks at his grandmother's home 60 mi. from Houston, when a telephone call sent him flying to Houston. There Sue Trammell, 5-months-old daughter of ex-President Wash Bryan Trammell of Houston Natural Gas Co., lay ill with hydrocephalus. The Trammells' other child had died of the same condition a few months before. Mrs. Trammell was frantic when doctors told her that the man who could save Sue's life was Dr. Dandy in Baltimore 1,400 mi. away. Would Mr. Wedell fly Sue & family to Dr. Dandy...
...stop Jimmy Wedell borrowed an overcoat. At 1:57 a. m., 11 hr. after leaving Houston, the plane landed on Baltimore's snow-encrusted airport. An ambulance sped the Trammells to Johns Hopkins where Dr. Dandy's associate, Dr. Paul A. Kunkel, confirmed the Houston diagnosis of hydrocephalus...
...statement from Dr. Dandy, who, like every reputable physician, hates to have his private practice dragged out into the limelight. Said Dr. Dandy: "The condition is dangerous and not uncommon, but is not necessarily immediately fatal. There is a continual flow of spinal fluid into the brain cavity, and hydrocephalus is caused when there is an obstruction, bringing about a backing up of the fluid in the brain cavity. We will have to operate to form a by-pass to allow resumption of the free flow of the fluid. Such an operation is dangerous, of course, but the disease...