The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-08-21

els, symptoms of which have alread
appeared. In very short time j
will be developed how serious thi
! new trouble is.
APPRENTICESHIP.
| The Posts Washington specia
| speaks apprehensively of the sWol
len gland OF the neck in the Presi
dents case. 1t says the situation, il
short, this morning is one of hope
and uncertainty. The swollen glanC
has not yielded to treatment. Sur
geoHs apprehend some results, the
nature of which they do not disclose
The stomach is regaining it's tone
but whether it is to perform perma
nentiy the functions of stomach
and TO restore the weakened system
cannot be determined until solid
food has been taken and retained
and there is no present prospect of
making All experiment with solid
food.
Executive Mansion, $50. pm
The President has passed the day
quietly. He has been able to take
more liquid food by the mouth than
yesterday and the quantity by enc
mata has been prOportionately dim
inished. The parotid swelling re-
mains about the same. Pulse 10,
temperature 1904, respiration 49,.
Signed by the physicians.
DR.. BoyntOn, who came out of the
Presidents room at $50 this after
noon, said to an Associated Press
reporter: There is no truth in the
report that the object of introducing
the tube into the wound to such a
depth was for the purpose of reach
ing supposed puS accumulatiOns.
While washing out the Wonnd yes
terday the surgeons found there was
no longer any resistance to the pres
sure of the tube, and they, therefore,
let it go in as far as it would, and
to a depth Of eleven inches, and
afterwards to twelve inches.
Healthy pus is never absorbed, and
cannot be absorbed; consequently
there can be no foundation to the
theory that the depth of the wound
would indicate that pus had been
absorbed. The introduction of the
tube to so great depth gives no
further evidence of the location of
the ball. The tube was flexible
rubber catheter used in washing out
the wound, and we could tell in a
general way the direction which it
took through the body; that direc-
ton was forward and downward to-
wards a point in the anterior wall of
the abdomen, where the ball has
always been supposed to be. Nothing
new was ascertained. The surgeons
think it possible that the ball has
moved doWnwards since it first
lodged ia the abdominal wall, but
this is not certain. Surgeons regard
this opening up of the wound as
favorable 1t is better to have the
wound open throughout than closed,
or INSTRUCTED in the middle. It.can
now be gotten at and cleansed
thoroughly. In fact, this recent ex-
plOration shows no unfaVorable
symptoms, but to the contrary. The
President swallowed about three
teaspoonfuls of beef steak juice to-
day, and has also taken more milk
Cruel this afternoon. The swelling
of the paroted gland is only half the
size and is slowly diminishing.
By the introduction of a rubber
tube, twelve and a half inches into
the Presidents wound recently,
nothing new with regard to the To-
cation of the ball was learned. DR..
Bliss said: From the passage of the
tube to this depth, the tube was so
soft that one could only judge APP
proximately Of the direction which
it has taken. 1t passed downward and
forward toward the point in the in
terror wall of the abdomen, where
it had always been supposed to be,
and that was the most that could be
affirmed. DR.. Hamilton thought, he
said, the end of the tube lacked
about three inches Of reaching the
ball and the intervening space had
healed. In his, OR. Bliss opinion,
however, the distance from the end
of the tube to the ball was not so
great. In reply to a question with
regard to bedSoreS from which sthe
President had been reported to be
suffering, DR.. Bliss said emphatically
that the President had not on his
body a single sore, swelling, or abra-
sion of any kind, except the parOtid
swelling.
Chicago, 20.-Inter-O Oceans Wash
ington: The accidental discovery
of distractions in the track of the
ball, so near the mouth of the
wound, is regarded by unofficial
physicians as an evidence of great
neglect. Official surgeons have fire.
quently announced that the wound
was healing nicely to within three or
four inches of the mouth of the
wound. 1t now appears that eight
inches beyond it has been Suppurat-
ing all this time, and the light flow
of pus was due to the obstruc-
ton Just discovered and to
the fact that a consider
able amount was absorbed. This
accounts for the Inflammation in the
neck, and satisfies, at least. unoffi
cial experts that the President is,
and has been suffering from blood
poisoning. For weeks that eight
inches Of suppurating surface has
not been cleansed at all, and the re-
suit will probably be serious com
plications yet to come. Official sur