, 1881-07-24

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AT uALF-rAsT 4 O'CLOCK
the Presidents pulse had gone down below
a hundred. Respiration and temperature
srere not taken, in order not to disturb him.
secretary Hunt came out from the physicians
noom and said that the patient was doing
rery we'll, and that ITO fears Of anything
unrsc were then entertained. In front of
the White House small knot of people had
s,thercd before the bulletin. There were
mt many there at time DR.. Bliss spoke
honefuily. lie said lie did not think there
uopld be any misunderstanding. Symptoms Of
ifit were not appnrenth
AT N-A1.F-PAsT 5
there had been no return Of unfayorable
SYMPTOMS. The Presidents pulse was be-
Inv 100, and he continued sleeping. Drs.
Aeney and Hamilton arrived at about s
o'clock this evening. They did some very
fast travelling. DIR. Hamilton left New York
a, a.5t O'Clock. and arrived at Philadelphia
at 4:40p. Ill. lie was iii a special car. AT
Philadelphia he was met at the depot BY DR..
Ag1ew, and, without any delay, Il fast train
started for Washington. THE trip from New
Ynrk WIS maue III five hours and the trip from
Philadelphia in three hours. The evening
hplle!in did not come out until 7:30 o'clock
a N. 1t was not i very reassuring bulletin.
The symptoms, it should be remembered,
we're noticed when the wound was being
dressed. and the patient, consequently. was
mt in as good condition as wien i'll repose.
There was fair discharge from the wound
xhl|e it was being dressed. Tie pulse had
1oue III eighteen beats since 6 o'clock.
AT 10 O'CLOCK TONIGHT
the agent Of the Western Associated Press
ssw Secretary Blaine and Postmaster Geu-
e1al James ut the White House. Both of
them felt more hopeful, and 50 expressed
themselves.
Gen. James said: II have just sent
telegram to New York stating that the Pres
idents fever has declined, and that lie is
sleeping, that his pulse and temperature are
down, aud everything looks favorabie''
Secretary Blaine said he thought the
threatening symptoms had passed. lie had
felt very uneasy, but felt very hopeful then
BE said the President was sleeping, ami he
believed all the trouble had grown out of the
stoppage Of the flow Of pus from the wound.
Blaine said the surgeons agreed that the sud
den cessation of the discharge Of pus from
the wound would produce just such i trouble
Is the President had had.
TONIGHT DR. HAMILTON
telegraphcd his wife as follows:
@rhe symptoms of the President are not
50 grave as supposed when l left home.''
Dr. Agnew telegraphed his family tonight
IS follows:
"Thlngs are favorable"
These dispatches contain the only declara-
tion TINT the surgeons would make up to 10
o'clock tonight The President has been
sleeping all the evening under the influence
Of morphine, and the doctors would not dis
turb him to make an examination.
They examined the pulse at 10
o'clock and found it to be 10G,
but would not make any further exanina-
ton until Tomorrow morning. At 1850 to-
night at the White House everybody felt
more hopeful The feeling was that the i1ll-
mediate danger had passed.
AT nALF-rASr II O'CLOCK
tonight the Presidents pulse had fallen to
100. At midnight he was resting quietly,
though no additional morphine had been ad-
ministered Tonight the flow of pus from
the wound became free again, and better
symptoms followed, which sustains the
theory that the stoppage Of the drainage Of
the wound caused all the trouble. The
surgeons will not say that the return of the
symptoms may not appear, but
thay are hopeful.
Dr. MAYS OBSERVATIONS.
Dr. J. f. May, for forty-tive years estab-
Gshed III the practice of his profession at
Washington, said to a reporter: '1f. as is
stated in the dispatches, the reported relapse
came with chill lasting an hour.
! attribute the change to one Of
tFo causes. : It is either owing to
the malarial influence Of the low grounds
Of the Potomac Oh the south Of the Presi~
dents house, or else it is owing to the forma-
ton Of an abscess or the absorption of mat
ter, producing pyiensia- The chill pre-
eedes them all. The symptoms have
been so favorable and so mild that
| hardly think it owing to the absorp~
don of pus. Rather, it appears to nle, a
nalarial influence may be the cause. The
Presidents house. as is proverbially known,
Is subject to such n,alaria1 influence and the
Intermittent feyers which it causes. One Of
Tie worst and most obstinate cases OF
:. 1sTERM1rTESr TERrIAS
: AE1EA alACNAEus " do kl1dl "a L lCo!AEut lE1SC%
When he occupied the White House, and at
that time most of the servants on the
Eouth or the river side of the building were
attacked with that fever. If the President
haa been sleeping in room in the south, and
exposed 70 the breezes from the marshes by the
nver, with his windows Open at night, he
n3y have contracted the malarial fever.
which is always ushered in by q chill. II
This is the ease, it will manifest Itself in all
probability Monday by Il sound chill,
unless it assumes the Quotidian or
daily form, or the paroxysm is averted by
Eteatment. II lis relapse Is produced by tile
pther cauSe, absorption of pus (py:tmia), the
use is much more serious. But there is
strong reason to hope the latter is not the
EaSen
THE ASSASSIN.
EGERsoLr's OPINION OF THE WRETCH.
Special Da1pateh to 7Ae Caicc3o 11ibu,e-
WASHINGTON, D. c., July 23.-The Wash