The daily gazette., 1881-07-16
Continued Improvement of
the Patient at the
White House.
Decrease of Few er.
THE PRESIDENT TREA TED TO A
IMMATURE s.sET DINNER. :"

The third week begins in hope that he
will get we'll. Indeed, hope has almost
become conviction, and'it is difficult to
meet q man in Washington who thinks,
or says he thinks, he will die. Yet
there are crises to be passed and dan
gers to meet, ard until the doctors see
daylight in all directions it cannot be
said that he is out Of danger. The prin.
cipal difficulty was overcome when they
got control of the weather and robbed
the burning summer days and heated
nights of their terrors by the cooling ap-
paratus now at work. To pass from the
east to the west end of the White Hodse,
where the President's sick chamber Is,
is like taking rapid transit trip from
the unny side of the Treasury
Department to the top of Mount
Washington. The cooling apparatus
does its work we'll, and now not only Is
the sick chamber flied with cool, dry
air, but the corridors and other cham
bers in the same end OF the building are
also made habitable.
WASHINGTON, July 16-At 2.30 A.
M. the President was sleeping comforta.
bly,. The sever has entirely disap-
peared. s.44.
The following official bulletins were
issued yesterday:
"JULY 1880 q. m.-T'he Presi-
dent has rested well during the night, is
doing admirably this morning an takes
his food with relish. Pulse, 90; tenn
perature, 9S.5 respiration, 1877
81 D. m,-The President continues to
do very we'll. Pulse, 94; temperature,
9S.5 !; respiration, 49,"
The following telegram was sent by
the attending surgeons to the consulting
snrganns: " The President continues
to do we'll. The afternoon favar is
daily less marked. A smaller quantity
of milk has been given and solid food
substituted and relished. He has had
less rum and at intervals of several
hours some Tokay wine, In all about
two ounces and half of the latter. Last
night his hypodermic injection consisted
of three-sixteenlhs OF grain of morphia
only, which proved sufficient to secure
rest. This morning we have altered
the dose of sulphate of quinia to three
grains, to be taken three times only.
Yesterday at p. m. bis pulse was 9S,
temperature, 10l respiration, 23. To
day al $50 a. m., pulse, 90; tempera-
ture, 98.5; respiration, IS. At p. M,
pulse, 90; temperature, 9S.5 .respira-
tion, IS.
Up. m.-The President has continued
to do we'll during The day. The after
noon fever has been slighter than on
any day since the Sd. Pulse, 90; tenn
perature, 1904; respiration, 20.
THE ELECTRIC PROBE.
The electric machine by which it is
hoped to find and locatethe ball In the
Presidents body Is approaching compile
tion and every successive experiment
gives promise of success. found Pro
fessor Bell in his laboratory out on
Connecticut! avenue to-day. He was
hard at work, and said at first that he
was glad to see me, and then said quick
ly, on second thought, he was not at all
glad. Then be went on to say that SO
much had been printed about the ma
chine in advance of its completion that
the public had come to think 1t was al
ready for operation.
"Well, isn't it?" asked.
"Not at ALL" he replied. "It is only
In i.s experimental stages, SO to speak.
There Is little more to tell than has al
ready been published. My experiments
to-day have been with piece of lead of
the size OF the bullet in Guiteau's pistol.
I find that can get the machine to in
dicate the presence OF the lead with great
accuracy"
sYou have tried through several SUBJ
stances, l understand"
ayes; that was with a rough machine,
not such one as this, which have
only tried yet without intervening SUBJ
stances"
"When do you expect to have it ready
for use?"
"In few days probably, although
that is question l cannot answer
definitely. will work away as 1t ii it
will show the presence of piece OF
metal with nothing intervening; then
will put the lead bullet in a bag of wet
bran and try 1t there. This bran has
about the same element to conduct cleo
tricity as the human body"
"Won't you try it on human body
before you 60 to the President with it?"
"Obl yes, of course. When it goes
to that sick chamber, If it ever goes, it
will be to perform the work allotted to
it. It will not go fjr experiment"
"Will you experiment on cadavarP'
stNo, eau use it on myself or any
person. l can rut the ball under nay
hand or under my arm. Then take
the coils and wave them about first one
way and then the other, and when it
gets near the lead it Will ring.'
"But suppose it gets near the place
and rings, aud it is possible to get yet
nearer, will the machine, If brought
nearer, indicate that facl?"
eyes, the nearer 1t gets the greater
the inducing will be-"
"How far can you place the ball from
the machine aud get respons5s?"
"About three inches"