FORMER PRESIDENT SUFFERING FROM DIGESTIVE UPSET
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) On January 31, 1924, The Evening Star reports that former POTUS Woodrow Wilson "has been confined to his room...suffering from...'a digestive upset.'"
Mr. Wilson's current health situation was conveyed by Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson* who has been "out of town." His duties with the former president were assumed by Dr. Sterlin Ruffin**. Both physicians, however, "called at the Wilson residence on S Street this morning."
Mr. & Mrs. Wilson's daily afternoon automobile rides will be cancelled while the former president is ill.
*Cary Travers Grayson (1878-1938) was born in Salvbria, Virginia & graduated from William & Mary College, 1898. CTG received his M.D. & Dr of Pharmacy degrees from the University of the South. He served in the US Navy 1904-1928.
**Sterlin Ruffin (1866-1938) received his MD at George Washington University, 1890.
SOURCE
"Woodrow Wilson Ill, Gives Up Auto Rides," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., January 31, 1924, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
