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Prof. Kelsey Has Rare Disease

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Parent Issue
Day
21
Month
November
Year
1902
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

ONLY CASE OF KIND IN THIS COUNTRY IN NINE YEARS

He is Doing Well But is Not Yet Entirely Out of Danger

The illness of Prof. Francis Kelsey has been known to be serious by his friends for some time, but the exact nature of it and the extreme gravity of the conditions which the surgeons found on operating has not been made public.

Prof. Kelsey is suffering from an affection of the liver which is most peculiar and extremely rare. His case is the first case of the sort which has occurred in the United States in the past nine years and is the eighteenth case on record. It is a disease which is very hard to combat and is very often fatal. The liver is full of cysts of various sizes which are filled with germs. They increase rapidly and cause intense suffering. In Prof. Kelsey’s case the surgeons found large numbers of these cysts and removed a great many of them, but were unable to remove them all. The question now is whether or not the growth of these cysts has been arrested.

Prof. Kelsey is getting along finely, even better than the physicians dared to hope, but it is too early yet to predict the result of the operation, although the physicians hope for his ultimate recovery.