The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-07-08
PRESIDENT GARFIELD.
He CONTINUES TO IMPROVE SLOWLY.
He Has u Good Appetite. sleeps
Well, snd while she,e In No
Material Change From His
Condition Yesterday,
His Phy sicians are
Very Hopeful.


Wa hingt0D, July 7.-Executive Mansion
a m. The president passed most com.
Portable night and continues steadily to im-
prove. H. Is cheerful and asks for addition.
al food. Pulse9 temperature 90 and one
'en'h; respiration % 5igneo] d. W.
Bliss, J. X. Barnes, }. j. Wood ward, r ,bert
RI, burn.
The next bulletin will be Issued at l D. m.
Executive Mansion, o u. m-The physi,
clans have not yet issued their morning
bulletin. The presidents symptoms are
probably less dangerous this morning than
At any previous time. The fret callers this
morning were Postmaster General James
and Second Assistant Postmaster General
Elmer. They both LETT with bright faces,
aud Dr. Bliss, who is now looking over the
morning mail. looks very we'll satisfied
with the course matters are taking.
Oh ial bul,tln, Executive Mansion, 1910
\. IN Attorney -Hensral MacVsagh says
the presldenrs condition IA very favorable
indeed. He does not consider that the pres
dent Ia out OF danger yet, but says he ap-
pears TO be passing out Of il as rapidly rs can
Os expected.
Sa'annan, Ga, July THE board Of
alderman last night adopted resolution
tenouncing the Atomp. on the presidents
lifsand EXPIRE sing sy m palhy with the presi,
dent and family.
official bulletin, Executive Mansion n.
m.-lhs condition ct the president continues
quite as favorable as this morning. His pulse
Is 100; temperature l08; respiration % Un.
less s''me uufAvorabe change should occur,
no further bulletin will DO issued until $50
. m igreo d w Bliss. j X Barnes.
j j Woodward, Il bert Re-, burn.
Executive Mansion, 2:S0 .. The con.
di,ion OF the president has remained sub.
stantially unchanged lince the date Of the
last official bulletin. A slight increase in
pulse and temperature since morning 10 said
by the attending ply sicisns 10 be only the
natural fluctuations Of fever from morning
till noon. The president has eaten chicken
broth to-day, and expressed q strong
Cesire about noon for toast and oat meal
with milk. The latter was given him %
probably the least Objectionable kiud o, solid
food winch he seemed 10 crave. Ia c0nyer.
sation this afternoon with D.. Boynton, the
presidenrs family physician, Dr.. Bliss ex-
pressed the opinion that the presidents
chance of recovery was now considerably
more than ever. The danger OF psriionitis
is, he said, rapidly passing away,
and although 1t might still
occur It's occurrence had become
Improbable. The only accident now to be
apprebended. he said, and the only ones like
fy TO terminate fatally, were secondary bem-
orsge and py @nia or blood pois s,ning. 500,
oDdAry htmorhsge might occur AZ any time
up 70 the seventh day, but on account Of the
c,urse which the ball took and The
place where 1t is supposed to be, the
dsn ger of secondary hemorrhsee does NOT
set in. Dr. Bliss opinion is that py 90 mia or
blood poisoning 70 the accident NOS. 10 be
feared nDd Of that here was not Yet, he said,
the slightest indication. An abcess aIso
might form at any time along
tho course of the ball or at the
extremity OF the wound, but with this, he
said, they could deal successfully. He ex-
pressed great reliance on the president 3
vigorous constitution. strong vitality and
calm courage. He was, the doctor said, the
very best patient he had feen in
tHe course Of bis surgical practices. With re-
gard 70 the supposed course of the ball and
its present location, DR. Bill said that
while they hid not thought l. .nsnstdspt X to
probe deeply in sesreh Of it, either iu medi.
ately after the IL fiction Of the iniur, or
since that time, he did on Saturday intro.
duce nelle.on probe into the wound yerv
gently, and located the course OF the bali
about three and half inches.
30 far as he could judge It had entered the
back above the right hip, and taken q nearly
horizontal cou 80 forward through the BODY.
striking and slightly fracturiDg rib And
being thence dtAscted u little to the right
where 1t penetrated the liver. Whether The
bsll remained In that organ, or passed
through itand lodged in the interior wall Of
the abdomen, be was unable
to say, but he hoped the latter would pruve
to be the case. He regarded the wound
In surgical sense very fortunate one
since the slight detection Of the ball 10 the
right had carried It away from the region
where 1t would have been likely to prove
fatal In few hours and into
a region where II left chsncs
Of recovery. Spen king Of the pain In the prea.
ident's feet, VI. Bliss said thatit was pr bs.
bly, due to lacerAtion of one of the symns.
thetic ganeliA. The motor and sspsorv
nerves Of the leg had not, be said been IN.
ljured. In conclusion D.. Bliss exs
pressed the opinion that wh,lv the prea :.
Ident was still 10 serious danger, every
day was carrying him past the critical
points one after another and he had stron~
hope that be would recover.
Executive MAnsion.-The following dIs.
patch was sent BY the surgeon 10 charge. 10
the two consulting surgeons this sfternoon:
Executive Mansion.- the psst "a
hours tho president has continued 70 Imorove
slowly, - was anticipated. A slieht riae
Of temperature and llight incresSe n
the frequency Of the pulse occurred during
the afternoon and evening. At $50 o. "a.
the pulse was l04, Temperature l006 10.
re,piIation Is, but In accordance with III
movement both pulse and temperature were
again diminished this morning. and shove
some improvement over yesterday a
the same hour. Al 8 q, M. ths
pulse WA 94, temperature 81 l.l0, rsspiration
%. We anticipated. Of course 8 simiIsr
movement for some days TO come, ana 70 To-
dav and st ! p. M, pulse 100; temperature
l08; respiration %. Last evening 81 o:SI :
quarter Of q grain Of morphine sulphursts
was administered hypodsmically ia ~
president slspt very ysll during the nieht.
10 addition . chick broth and albumsn,