Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-22
TELECRApHIC.
SPECIAL TO THE REco UNION
The President.


| EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, August
20th-S:S0 A. NJ The President has passed
quiet night. and this morning his condition
| does not differ materially from what it was
yesterday at the same hour. The swelling of
the parotid gland is unchanged. and is free
from pain. This morning his pulse is 9S,
temperature 9S 4, respiration Is. Signed by
Bliss, Barnes, Woodward, Reyburn and
| Agnew.
SECOND DIsPATCH.I
EXECUTIVE MANSION, August Goth. Just
| before the morning dressing occurred DIR. Bliss
came into Private Secretary Browns room.
He said, in reply to inquiries regarding the
| President. that he had passed a very comfort
able night He slept from half an hour to
an hour at o time, and the last twelve hours
had shown considerable Improvement Dur
| ing the awakening hour about l o'clock al
enema was administered, and about o'clock
| the patient took two ounces of milk Cruel.
| After that he rested quietly until the doctors
| arose. DIR. Bliss saw the President for the
| first time during the night after daylight.
| A conversation with the surgeon was as fol-
| lows;
How is the patient, Doctor y
He has had good night"
"Then | suppose he is bette" !"
"Ob, yes. He shows improvement since
yesterday. l saw him only few moments
ago. He was lying there as quietly as could
be. l took his pulse. 1t was about &C."
"How was his respiration, Doctor p
q" 1t could not have been more than 16. He
was breathing easily, and his skin was cool
and moist. His pulse was soft and clear"
"The pulse will become more frequent
after the morning dressing, | suppose :"
Yes possibly three or four beats.
How is the parotid gland2 Does it
bother him much?"
"Did you ever have the mumps ="
"Yes, sir
"Then you know something about how it
troubles him. He cannot open his mouth
wide at al times. He told me this morning
that his mouth would not open but half an
inch"
"Is it still swollen?"
1.-The swelling is not so much now, but the
soreness affects the muscles of the jaw"
docs it not cause q collection of phlegm
ia the throat, them"
"Oh yes; but he clears his throat so
| loudly that he can be heard in the next room.
He told me Just now that he thought if he
should vomit it would clear the phlesm away.
told him it was not necessary. Ga one &C.
casion during the early morning, one who
happened to be in the hallway outside the
door near the Presidents bed, distinctly
heard the patient ask Colonel Swain fer his
handkerchief. When is was given him he
cleared bis throat and wiped his lips and re.
peated the operation several times"
During further conversation with DR..
Bliss, he said, in regard 10 mistake which
occurred in a telephone interview with him
late last night regarding the use of an instru.
ment in connection with the wound,
! that he appears to have been understood
to say that the flexible tube used
for cleansing the wound had not
been put into the wound further than three
and half inches. What 1 intended to
say" continued the Doctor. "was that no
probe had penetrated the wound beyond that
depth" How far the flexible cleansing tube
had been inserted he could not say, but he
would ascertain exactly, and probably men
ton the fact in one of today's bulletins.
DIR. Reyburn came into the room Just as
DIR. Bliss concluded, and said the indications
this morning were better than they had been
for week
DR.. w. II. Hawks came to the Mansion
about ten minutes ago, and desiring to obtain
the exact condition OF the President, con-
ferred with DIR. Boyntop, who said: 1.-THE
President is still better this morning. and
everything is favorable"
The feeling of reinsurance is rapidly in
creasing.
THIRD DISPATCH!
EXECUTIVE MANSION, WAsHISGToN, Au-
gust 20th-1:15 P. a.-Ihe President has
taken nourishment through the mouth several
tllneS bO-uay, anu III CUuSluSSdDie
In all he has swallowed ten ounces of kou-
miss and four ounces Of milk Cruel, without
gastric disturbance. II has not been thought
prudent up TO the present time TO give him
any other kind of liquid food, but the juice
of beefsteak is being prepared, and viii be
tried soon. If it be retained and assimilated,
beef juice will henceforth be given every day.
An enema was administered to the patient
this forenoon, consisting of three and half
ounces OF beef extract, with the yelk Of an
egg.
DIR. Hammond's Setback.
WASHINGTON, August 2Oth.-Followipg is
the reply of the Secretary of War and Post
master General to the telegram of DR.. Ham
mond, sent shortly after the President was
shot, asking if he could be of any service:
EXECUTIVE MANSION, July 4, 1SS1-Dr
W. A. Hammond, Surgeon General tretired).
New York City Your kind offer is declined
with thanks. We are satisfied with the
Presidents medical attendants, and con.
su.tation with eminent surgeons was held this
morning.
RoBT T. LINCOLN, Secretary of War.
THos L. JAMES, Postmaster-General