THE occupant of the White House submits as a matter
of course to a medical regimen, no matter how good his physique. In the case of Franklin Roosevelt this had to be rigorous in the extreme. He went to Washington twelve years after the paralytic stroke and the beginning of the wonderful self-cure. Admiral McIntyre (a naval physician here is quite in order) took charge at once, and stay&I with Roosevelt until the end. As he remarks, the country was always anxious to learn how well the President was. This report is con- tinuous and precise. The English reader may feel that, even allowing for the special interest of the treatment, a good deal of the detail is superfluous. The Admiral goes closely into the final check-up just before the journey to the Crimea. The doctors were unanimous that the patient was entirely free from organic trouble. We are told that some of the Yalta photographs showed him to be in good condition and not like the distressing prints that were published. Yet the latter told the truth. The book is brightly written and contains short sketches of several members of the Roosevelt circle.
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