The disease of the large bowel that kept Secretary John Foster Dulles bedfast in Walter Reed Army Hospital last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) was considered rare until the turn of .
Martin still suffers from rheumatic heart disease (caused by rheumatic fever), is still bedfast, still needs the kind of medical care that hospitals give.
The enemy that made General Douglas MacArthur a bedfast hospital casualty last week is as common as it is mysterious.