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Mental Disorder
Neilson acknowledged that liver disease can affect the mind but maintained that Col. Holmes showed none of the manifestations, specifically inability to be oriented to place, person and time and a symptomatic Happing of the hands. A patient can have a sick liver up to the terminal stage before manifesting emotional and physical signs of encephalopothy, the mental disorder associated with cirrhosis, he said.
Show ing no sign of mental deterioration right up to the day of his discharge, the colonel returned to Flint Hill where he continued under Dr. Neilson's treatment, the doctor said, adding that he saw Holmes when he returned to the farm on November 10 and spoke with him every day or two by telephone. Then on November 16, the commander received a message that his patient had gone into a coma and he drove out to the farm, arriving after the colonel’s death.
Stunned By Bequest
Remembering the “death arrangements." Neilson said he went into work to get the envelope, found it entirely unchanged, opened it and read the will for the first time. “1 was stunned." the doctor said, adding that he went home and thought about it for two days, finally getting in touch with a lawyer, Roland Hartshorn, who advised him to tile the document for probate.
Paul Hatrell from New Orleans, a Navy dentist who met Col. Holmes while stationed at Bethesda in 1%8, and Dwight Moody, both hunting friends of the colonel’s, followed Neilson to
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