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To the Editor:
Lud Gutmann's amusing anecdote about Dr. Frank Forster's† supernumerary nipples and syringomyelia ruse1 rekindled my memory of a ploy that extricated Frank from an awkward international predicament in 1966.
Upon finishing my neurology residency in June 1965, I entered the Medical Corps of the US Army and, several months later, received orders for Vietnam.2 Sometime in the spring of 1966, I heard that Frank, then Chair of Neurology at the University of Wisconsin, was visiting US military bases in the Pacific, in his capacity as the Neurological Consultant to the Air Force. I wrote him, requesting that he get permission to consult with me in Vietnam and advise me on distinguishing, without the availability of electroencephalography, among faints, fits, fugue states, and fakes. To my delight, Frank arranged for me to spend a week in Japan accompanying him on …
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