The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-08-23
raa PRESIDENTS a+sE

G0OISOI. II Is DGIi6V6U IIldG IHo
rumOr has spread over the north
west, and possibly has reached San
Francisco. There was intense eX-
element for time, OF course. The
rumor was wholly a baseless
Islander, as the report from Wash
lngtOn shows.
Executive Mansion, 1880 p.m.The
President this morning began the
day IN a condition which was re-
ported as slightly better than that
as shown by the last official bulletin
Of yesterday. He had passed a
quieter and more comfortable night
Than anticipated. There had been
no recurrence of the vomiting which
excited so much alarm yesterday
afternoon. The pulse at 6 o'clock
was down to 9S. This suspicious
opening of the day seemed to make
more reasonable the belief of few
sanguine persons. The case was
about to take a favorable turn, and
when the morning bulletin ap-I
peared and it became known that
the patient had began to swallow
food again without vomiting or
nausea; a faint Wavering hope took
place Of the profound dependency
which prevailed everywhere
throughout the city last night. At
Z am. the surgeons gave the patient
enama, consisting of four ounces
of beef extract, with the yolk of an
egg, and shortly afterward, in COM
pliance with his request, he was
given a small quantity of kOumiss,
which he swallowed and retained
without discomfort. Later III the
morning, as there was no signs of
gastric disturbance, the patient was
given more koumisS and milk por-
ridge, and by noon he had taken and
retained ten or twelve ounces. The
exciting cause of the vomiting yes
terday, viz, the mucous in the throat,
seemed to-day to be absent. The
secretionS from the inflamed parOtid
gland were very scanty and gave the
patient no annoyance, and the gland
itself caused little, if any pain. He,
therefore, rested more quietly than
usual throughout the day, swallow
ing liquid nOuriShment at regular
intervals without nausea or discom-
fort. Between 10 and II o'clock
another enema was given, consist
ing of five ounces of beef extract
and the yOlk of an egg, and shortly
after this the patient went to sleep
With the exception of the usual
slight rise of pulse and temperature
his condition remained Substan-
TALLY unchanged throughout the re-
mainder of the day.
In conversation with a reporter
this afternoon, DR.. Bliss, who
seemed rather more than ORDINARILY
cheerful and confident, said: The
general condition of the President
is not changed very much since yes
terday, but that that change had
been and was for the better. 1t is
furthermore, he said, a change in
precisely those symptoms which are
regarded with most anxiety and
which have more direct bearing
upon the nature of the case, viz. !:
symptoms that depend upon the
condition of the stomach. One
great question now, he said, is the
question Of nOprishment. II the
Presidents stomach will take and
| assimilate food to meet the strain
upon his system caused by the fever
and constant secretion of pus, to re-
strain his strength until other unfa-
vorable complications disappear.
and to enable nature to carry on
| the process of repair, which
has commenced in the wound,
[ think there is every possibility
of complete recovery. The conse-
quenceS Of the swelling of the
parotid gland, or of the slight septic
faint of blood in which that
swelling had its origin, are of
secondary Importance when COM
pared with the consequences of
the failure of the stomach to assimi-
late food. Exhaustion is the thing
most to be feared. The patients
stomach takes the food to-day very
we'll, and we hope to have no further
trouble with it. The stomach itself
was not so much in fault yesterday
The vomiting was caused by the
patients strenuous efforts to get rid
of the tenacious mucous in his throat
| He told me, at one time, he felt
nausea to-day.
A CARDINALS SYMPATHY.
On the 18th instant the following
was received by cable:
AS the holy father learned
with painful surprise and pro
found sorrow of the horrid
attempt of which the President of
the Republic was the victim, so now
heis happy to felicitate his excel
lency upon the news that his pre-
ciOus life is now out of danger, and
will ever pray that God may grant
him speedy and complete recovery
| of his health. and long spare him to
benefit the United States.
The undersigned has the honor to
join in these sentiments and sincere
gratulationS and wishes for COM
| Dlptp recovery