New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-23
PRESIDENT GARFIELD.

COME AND LIQUID NOURIsHMENr TAKEN MAI
unAIIy-puBIIc APPREHENSION SOMEWHAT
orIErEp-TIIE SITUATION STILL CAUSING DEEP
ANxIETY-A MESSAGE FROM THE POPE.
The President spent less restless night on
Sunday, and when he awoke yesterday morn
inu it was found that his stomach was in con-
dition to receive food In the course OF the
day about twenty ounces of liquid nourishment
was given naturally and retained. The official
bulletins indicated progress, though not of a
marked character, and the public apprehen-
sion was somewhat allayed. Secretary Blalnes
dispatch to Minister Lowell last night was to
the effect that the situation was such as to
cause anxiety. if it were not critical. A DIS
patch from the Pope, dated August 10, and
expressing congratuation, was made public by
the State Department yesterday.
SLIGHT BUT UNDOUBTED PROGRESS.
NoURIsuMENT AGAIN ADMINISTERED IN THE NATU-
RAJ WAY AND RETAiNED-THE GLANDULAR
AFFECTION--AN OPERATION HINrED AT IN CASE
OF sUPPURATIoN-A SOMEWHAT BETTER FEEL
TBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNEl
WASHINGTON Aug. 22.-The old and familiar
story must be repeated tonight. There has been
another recession from the bri K of imminent peril
Only those possessed of the spirit of dependency
refuse to be encouraged in slight degree.
There are three chief elements of danger-the
wound, the stomach and the gandular affection.
The wound in spite of improvements, is still itself
a source of danger. The stomach which has
for week been the most alarming seat
of disease has barely resumed ils suspended
functions; yet little the progress has
been, it is none the less pr gress, and so
far there is reason for encouragement. The iniam-
nation of the gland refuses succumb in any de-
cided degree to treatment, but it has never been
considered by the physicians as source ofdanger
in ITSELF and could only become such by its possible
relations TO he infrmties of o'ber organs.
Another surgical operation III connection with the
gland is limited at, but it will not be dangerous
less the stomach should in the meantime utterly
fuse to perform its duties and thus reduce the
tent to such state of weakness that he could not
bear the slightest surgery If undertaken, the
operation will be for the purpose of relieving the
gland if it begins to suppurate The doctors have
been trying to scatter this Inflammation and to pre-
vent suppuration, and it is possible yet that they
may succeed in dong Should operation be
necessary it will be similar in kind to opening a
boil, and little if any more dangerous.
There was "a feeling that the absence of favora-
BILE turn in respect to the stomach to-day must be
interpreted the premOnition of dissolution. The
favorable turn was recorded in the morning bulle-
tin. Probably morning bulletin since the Presi-
dent was shot has been awaited with greater anxicty
Before its APP the President had taken nour-
ishment by the mouth. and the doctors were enabled
to make public the cheering information in their
first official ntterance of to-day. The succeed ling
bulletins recorded the giving of additional food and
this, being understood the thing most to be ho2ed
for gave rise to increased encouragement the day
wore on.
No new unfavorable symptoms have developed
and the day may therefore, he accounted one of un-
nistakabl~, though slight progress.
The encouragement of tonight arises from a
sense of partial relief from the threatening mani
festations of yesterday, and is be akon in the
abstract Nature has almost suspended her func-
tions. The secretions from the wound are pumped
by the drainage tube pressed by hand the sur
face; food digested in the kitchen the labratory
is placed by hand in the channels of assimilation,
and inflammation is sought to be abated by crowd
ing back instead of bringing its cause to an issue
and to consequent relief. The blood, weakened and
impure, still moves of its own accord through the
veins and is vitalized by the spontaneous action
the lungs but in all things else the machine is kept
in motion by the hands of its careful attendants
and almost no aid is received from nature.
VIII nature after the long rest its opera
tionsY There is reason again to hope that with the
blessing of God it WILL 1t is said to-day that the
disturbance of yesterday was caused by gargle
about the advisability of giving which there was a
difference of opinion among the doctors When
given 1T is said, some of the fund went beyond the
obstruction and brought on the disturbance which
happily did not prove serious. All the ground lost
yesterday has been regained to-day, and some addi-
tiona advance has been made. More food has been
given by the mouth than by enemata, and the
promise of the symptoms tonight is that the cne-
mata may soon be entirely dispensed with
1t is frequently said that notwithstanding the en-
conraglng stories put forth by the physicians and
published, the President is worse to-day than he
was week after the shooting, and the inference
is drawn that he has been gradually sinking The
truth is that the President has been during most of
the time gradually gaining. the fact furnishing An
ample warrant for the encouragement given bv the
doctors. His sinking has been the result of sudden
relapses by each of which the ground gained has
been more than lost,
Ihe distinction is important, SINCE were the first
assumption true, no hope of recovery could be en-
tertained. Relapses may yet occur and NAV nrove
fatal or continued waste without sufficient rebuId
ing may soon bring the patient to the boundary line
OF endurance when gradual sinking to final death
must ensue. Tonight the symptoms point in the
opposite direction.
families remained at the White House tonight later
than usual. and did not leave it until nearly 1
o'clock. They were agreed that, while the situa-
tion is a little more encouraging than it was last
night the Presidents condition is still very critical
Secretary Window said He seems to be a little
better than last night While we see no real reason
to be encouraged we are little less discouraged y
Attorncy-General MacVeagh said "We feel that
ne Is little better than he was last nightn Secre
tary Blaine SAID: little better than last night
anu upon being asked whether there was any rea-
sonaoe ground for confident hope repeated his first
answer Secretary Lincoln plainly frank v said
Me are waiting. We are a little more hopeful or
ttie less discouraged than last night hnt we ro
waiting and watching with great anxiety'n Tbese
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