Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-08-01
d. W. BLISS,
j. K. BARNES,
J. J. WOODWARD,
z. REYBuRN.
DETAILED REPORT.

DISABLED hEPOhI.
WASHINGTON, July 31-The President has
had very comfortable day, and the surgeons
say tonight he has made marked improve
ment since morning He has taken solid food,
the chief dish to-day being mutton chops,
and the nourishment agrees with him. He
now has good appetite The evening rise of
fever was not very marked. DR.. Bliss says
the Presidents wound is very sore, and that
naturally he breads the dressings, that
the state of pulse, Temperature and respira-
ton are taken immediately after
the dressing, and the Presidents dread of this
dressing causes his pulse and temperature to
rise above the actual fever he has. The SIR
geons are convinced that this theory is cor
rect, because the fever always reeedes so early
after the evening dressing. 1t did tonight,
and at 9 p. m. the President was resting .qui-
city, without any fever apparently. After the
wound was dressed yesterday evening
BELLS INDUCTION BALANCE
was used to locate the ball. When it crossed
the spot, on the right side of the abdomen,
that was dlsco'ored for few days after the
wound was received, the external apparatus
vibrated perceptibly, though it did not ring
out as loudly as intended, Indicating the To-
cation of the bullet. The vibration was suf-
ficisnt to satisfy the surgeons that the ball is
lodged just where DR.. Bliss said it was. in
the interior wall of the stomach, and that it
is just beneath tho discolored spot. Prof.
Bell worked last night and to-day at his ap-
paratus, and now says he has it so perfected
that it will perfectly locate a bullet to the
depth of five iuches below the surface. The
surgeons have decided to make another test
tomorrow with the improved appar-
atus, but say they will not cut
the ball out until it becomes
troublesome and such operation becomes ne
any trouble where it is. Still they are desirous
of demonstrating its location. So far as the
experiments have gone they have sustained
DIR. Bliss theory of the course and lodgment
of the ball.
MRS. GARFIELD
was out at the Soldiers home yesterday, look
ing through the Presidents cottage, as it is
now thought probable he will be carried there
Just as soon as he is able to be moved. She
decided, if the president does go out
there, to put him in the north
room of the cottage, as it is large, well venti.
| lated and lighted, and adapted to the needs of
a sick room. If the President is conveyed
there it will be to get away from the malarial
| of the White house until he has grown strong
enough to take a sea voyage. The President
| has been in partially upright position nearly
| all day, supported by frame work under the
| mattress, and he felt to night no fatigue from
| it. Indeed, he expressed a sense of relief from
| the change of position.
UNEYENTFUL DAY.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, July 81, 1l:15 p. M.
The day at the White house passed very
| quietly, the reports from the sick room being
| without exception of very favorable char
| acter. DIR. Bliss, in conversation ON the Pres
| ident's condition, when asked how he ac-
counted for the regular rise of pulse every
evening, said it was simply the result of sur
| gieal fever. 1t is a mistaken idea, he added
| to suppose that all surgical fevers are contin.
uous, instancing Immediately thereafter a
member of Congress having been in his
| charge as proof Of the assertion. Since the
| issuance of the P. m. bulletin, the
! Presidents pulse, the doctor said, Ihad fallen
about ten beats, and is at this hour at "a, with
| temperature normal. The pulse of President
| Garfield was the subject of discussion by the
surgeons to-day, and it ives decided it was
about So beats. DR.. Bliss said if the Presi
dent continues TO improve for the next two
weeks proportionately with his improvement
the past few days, there is no reason why he
will not be able to sit up during the third
week, or probably sooner. During the course
of another conversation, the doctor explained
| at length the manner in which
DRESSING THE WOUND
was made, and the part taken therein by each
attending surgeon. He said one surgeon, DR.
Reyburn, always takes the temperature, DR.
Woodward prepares the liquids for cleansing
the wound, keeping them at blood heat, and
the other two, Bliss and Barnes, dress tht
wound. Everything is done consoientiously
In referring to the probable location of ths
ball, DR.. Bliss explained in detail the expert
ment by means of the induction balance
) wound. Yesterday, he said, although the ap