The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-07-26
THE PRESIDENT.
The Favorable Symptoms
Promise a Good Day for
Tuesday,

Promise a Good Day for
Tuesday.
Washington, 25.-ExecutiVe Man
sion. 7 p.m.-The Pesident has done
we'll during the day. His afternoon
fever did not come on until 8 o'clock.
1t is somewhat higher than yester-
day, but there has been no chill. At
Z pm. his pulse was 10, tempera-
ture 101.S, respiration a.
Mr.. COnkling was looking in his
usual health to-day, but appeared a
little grayer than when the Senate
adjourned. He and Jones were
shown into the cabinet room. The
Presidents private secretary was
the only person in the room. DR..
Bliss was sent for, after which the
fact that ex-senator Conkling had
called was conveyed to the Presi-
dent. The visit was of short dura-
ton. Coming out of the White
House ex-senator COnkling said: :
Il am very glad to hear the Presi-
dent is better" There is good
deal Of comment on the fact that the
operation which relieved the Pres
ident was not made before. yester-
day morning. The attending ply
Sicians thought best to await the
opinion of the consulting physi-
clans. In the meauti re, the sack of
matter, the great disturber, had been
emptied by DR.. Bliss by the manip-
ulation of his hand. 1t filled again,
however, and showed the necessity
of an incisiOn. This was made as
soon as the consulting physicians
had examined the wound and pro-
nounced that the proper course. In
stead of the matter now having to
traverse the elbow of the wound
formed by the detection of the ball
after the rib was struck, it can be
taken out directly through the Incl
sion, which is funnel shaped.
There is a manifestation of ma
laird about the White House. Char
ley Hendley, the stenOgrapher, has
had it for the past four or five days
and was forced to succumb. He is
now at home in bed. The Office
coachman is in bed from the same
cause. One Of the doorkeepers is
likewise down with it, and further,
one of the Stablemen is in the same
condition.
Two things arrived at the White
House by express worthy of note. |
One was a stuffed humming bird
perched on a.l impossible like tree
affected by the taXidermists. 1t
came from Rhode Island and was
destined by the sender ito relieve
the mOnotony Of the sick room"
How it could afford such relief not
even Dr.. Hamilton could tell The
other arrival was a box of alleged
crackers" They were to satisfy
the appetite, and at the same time
impart some strength. They looked
and tasted like half cooked biscuits,
which had been allowed to harden.
1l.30.-Dr.' Bliss said that there is
possibility of the formation of
another puS cavity, although there
is no reason to expect it, because the
discharge is now free and uniuter-
rupted. Should, however, another
cavity form, its existence would be
at once indicated by the general
constitutional disturbance which it
would cause. There is no danger"
he said "of the formation of a pus
cavity without the accompaniment
of warning symptoms, such as a
haggard and depressed expression Of
the face, yigor and greatly increased
fever. These symptoms would at
once show the nature of the disturb
ing influence" Upon being asked
whether the blood could be poisoned
by a reabs0rpti0n of pus from the
hidden and enclosed cavity, DR..
Bliss said, Healthy puS is not taken
up by blood and cannot contami-
nate it. It is only when pus becomes
disorganiZed and diseased that it re-
absorbS SO as to cause pyaemia.
The President has never. at any
time, had a symptom of py@mia, and
the period during which that COM
plicatiOn is likely to occur is nearly
past. Py8mia generally manifests
itself before the7end Of the fourth
week, if at all. We havenO especial
reason to apprehend it IN this case.
There has certainly been 10 indi-
cation ofityet." DR.. Bliss attention
was then called to the fact that five
employees at the Executive Man
sion are suffering from malarial
fever, OR malaria in some Of its
forms, due to the condition of the
Potomoc flats below the city, and |
the question was asked him whether
the President was not to some ex-
tent effected, and whether the dp-
parent periodicity of the afternoon
fever did not indicate malarial intlu-
ence. He replied that no symptoms |
of malaria had been observed i'll the
Presidents case and that the regular
recurrence of his fever between
8 pm, and midnight is due to
other causes. Surgical fever is
always highest in the afternoon and
evening and lowest in the morning.
About ten grains Of quinine, he
said, had been given to thePresident
daily for two weeks past, but that
was done rather to tone up his ner-
Yous system than to cOunteract any
supposed influence of malaria.
The following dispatch was sent