Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-08-23
ReCiesU of the DdY.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, aug.
22-1O:3O p. m.-The President this morning
began the day in condition which was re-
garded as slightly better than that shown by
the last official bulletin yesterday. He had
passed quieter and more comfortable night
than was anticipated, there had been no re-
currence of vomiting which excited SO much
alarm yesterday afternoon, and his pulse be-
fore he awoke at this morning, was down
to 9S. This auspicious opening OF
the day seemed to justify, or at
least make more reasonable, the belief of the
few sanguine persons the case was about to
take a favorable turn and when the morning
bulletin appeared and became known he had
began to swallow food again without vomit-
ing or nausea, a
FAINT, WATERING HOPE,
took the place of profound dependency which
prevailed every where throughout the city last
night. At 7 a. m. the surgeons gave
him enemata consisting of four
ounces of beef extract with the yolk
of all egg. and shortly afterward, in compli-
ance with his request, he was given small
quantity of koumiss, which he swallowed and
retained without discomfort. Later in the
turbance, he was given more kOumisS and
milk porridge, and by noon he had taken and
retained ten or twelve ounces. The
EXCITING CAUSE OF VOMITING
Yesterday, viz: mucous in the throat, seemed
to-day to be absent. The secretions from the
inlsmed gland were very scanty and gave him
no annoyance, and the gland caused little if any
pain The President rested more quietly than
usual throughout the day, swallowing liquid
nourishment at regular intervals without
nausea or discomfort. Between IL and 1 clock
another enemata, consisting of five ounces of
beef extract and the yolk of an egg, and short
" after this he went to sleep. With the ex-
ception of the slight rise of pulse and temper
ature bis condition remained substantially un-
changed throughout the remainder Of the day.
This afternoon, DR.. Bliss, who seemed rather
more cheerful and confident, said the general
condition of the President had not changed
much since yesterday, but that what change
there had been was in the
DIRECTION OF IMPROVEMENT. s.
1t is furthermore, he said, a change in pre-
cisely those symptoms which we regarded
with the most anxiety, and which have the
most direct bearing on the future of the case
viz: The symptoms dependent on the cendi
ton of the stomach. The one great question
now, he said, is the question of nourishment
If his stomach will take and assimilate food
enough to meet the drain on his system caused
by the fever and constant secretion
of pus, to sustain his strength
until the other unfavorable complication
| disappear, and to enable nature to carry on
the process of repair which has began in tht
wound, think there is every probability o.
recovery. The consequences of the swelling
of the gland, or of the slight
SEPTIC TAINT OF THE BLOOD,
in which that swelling had its origin, are o
secondary importance when compared will
the consequences of the failure of the stom
ach to assimulate food. Exhaustion is tn
thing worst to be feared. On being asket
what he thought of the condition
of the patients stomach to-day. DR.
Bliss said it takes food to-da,
very well and we hope to have no furthe
trouble with it. The stomach itself was no
so much in fault yesterday, as the vomitln,
was caused by the patients strenuous effort
to get rid of the tenacious mucus in th'
throat He had felt no nausea to-day.