New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-01
PRESIDENT GARFIELD.

HIS RECOVERY NOW DOUBTED BY FEW.
EACH SUCCEEDING DAY FINDING THE WOUNDED
MAN BETTER-GAINING IN sTRENGTH-ExPERI-
MENTs WITH THE INDUCTION BALANCE BY PRO-
FEssOR BELLA TEST TO DE MADE
President Garfield's advance to recovery ap-
pears to be slow but sure. Each day finds him
better than he was the day before, with a
gradual gain in strength. His recovery is
hardly doubted. Professor A. Graham Bell has
perfected the instrument with which he expects
to locate the ball in the body of the President
and it is expected the test will be made to-day.
ALMOST UNIVERSAL CONFIDENCE.
THE OFFICIAL BULLETINS LEAVING LITTLE TO BE
SAID RESPECTING THE PRESIDENTS CAsE-PAss-
ING A COMFORTABLE DAY AND SLEEPING WELL
AT NIGHT
IBY TELEGRAPH TRIBuNE.l
WASHINGTON, July 31.-The official bulletins
have clearly and satisfactorily described the con-
dition and symptoms of the President to-day aud
leave nothing to be desired on that Almost
universal confidence prevails in Washington in
respect to the Presidents recovery although an oc
casonal croaker may be found who can draw some
comfort from temporary increase by half dozen
beats of the Presidents pulse rise of two-tenths
of degree in his temperature. General Swain
said this evening that this has been the Presidents
best day since he shot that he is steadily gain
ing strength that he has an appetite and relishes
the food gwen hlm and that " he is going to pull
through, sure, At 10 O'clock this evening the
President sleeping restfuly, and the slight fever
noted early III the evening had disappeared.
SATISFACTORY PROGRESS MADE.
REPORTS OF A FAVORABLE CHARACTERISTICS PRES
INDUCTION BALANCE IN ITS IMPROVED FORM
TO BE USED TO-DAY.
WASHINGTON. July 31.-The day at the White
House has passed very quietly the reports from the
sick room being without exception of a very favor
able character DIR. Bliss in conversation tonight
on the Presidents condition, when asked how he
accounted for the regularity of the high pulse every
evening, said that 1t simply the result of the
surgical fever
I" 1t is mistaken idea,' he added to suppose
that all surgical fevers continuous" mentioning
Immediately thereafter q number OF cases which
had been in his charge proof of the assertion.
Since the z o'clock bulletin issued the Pres
ident's pulse, the Doctor said, had fallen about ten
beats, and is at this hour-11 p. H.
about o. with temperature about normal.
The normal pulse of President Garfield was sub
ject of discussion by the surgeons to-day, and
concluded that it was about eighty beats.
Or. Bliss said that if the patient continued to i'm
prove for the next two weeks proportionately with
hisimprovement for the past few days. there was no
reason why he should not be able to sit up in the
course of the third week, probably sooner. The
which the dressings of the wound are made,
and the part taken therein by each of the attending
surgeons He said one surgeon tDr. Reyburn) al
ways takes the temperature. another Dr. Wood
ward prepares the liquids for cleansing the wound,
keeping them at blood heat and the other two (Drs
Bliss and Barnesl dress the wound.
Everything has been done conscientiouslyD said
the Doctor, to give the exact condition of the pa
tient at the time of the examination, whether ii be
favorable unfavorablen As an instance
OF this he referred to the fact that often
times when the evening examination is made
the fever will be found at its height aud perhaps i'm
mediately afterward it will have almost entirely
disappeared, but the condition at the
moment of the examination. he said is
invariably taken for the bulletins The fever al
though it may be variable. the doctor said always
makes its appearance later. In referring to
the probable location of the bullet, DR.. Bliss ex-
planned in detail the experiment, by means of the
Induction balance which occurred at the evening
dressing of the wound yesterday. He said:
Although the. apparatus was afterward discov-
cred to be ont of adjustment it indicated, at one
domen, about five inches below and to the right of
the navel and just the groin, precisely where
me attending surgeons have always maintained
that IL had lodged. Another experiment will be
made by Professor Bell tomorrow morning with an
improved apparatus, which, it is claimed will de-
tect bullet at depth of five inches from the sur
DIR. Bliss is of the opinion that this experiment
the ball. Va
In response to inquiry as to whether the ball if
II should be found to be in the front wall of the alb
domen, would be likely to cause the President any
serious annoyance, the Doctor said that unless it
had carried some bone with it-n which cvnet an alb
scess might form--there was no reason to fear any
troublesome complication from it.