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This article presents information on the book "A Carnival of Buncombe," by H.L. Mencken, and edited by Malcolm Moos. The current serving comprises a series of political essays called "Monday Articles." The essays covered--from diagnosis to prognosis to post-mortem--five Presidential campaigns which blustered through the mortifications of economic boom, collapse and convalescence; yet economic considerations get no more than an absent-minded nod from the author. The chief value of this exhumation lies not so much in what Mencken says about politics as in what the articles say about Mencken--the man, the legend and the method.

Focuses on early ambulation as part of a patient's postoperative care. Development of the treatment by physician Henry Ford; Effectiveness of the treatment to patients who have undergone surgical operations; Elimination of pulmonary embolism which is considered the most tragic postoperative catastrophe.

Presents information on an article about postoperative patients by Miriam Zeller Gross. Interest of Gross in the topic while working for a company which makes surgical sutures; Efforts of the author to write about progress in medicine.