New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-22

was caused by irritation of the throat from
accumulated phlegm and saliva, due to the IN
flammation of the parOtid gland. The efforts
of the physicians were directed to the attempt
TO dissipate the inflammation. The situation
was one, the physicians said, to cause anxiety
but not sufficiently grave to warrant alarm.
THE SITUATION AGAIN CRITICAL.
VOMITING CAUSED by THE ACCUMULATION OF
SALIVA AND PHLEGM--TAE STOMACH NOT NAU-
SEATED AND THE PULSE NOT hLAaMINGLY
nIGH--THE GLANDULAR INFI-AMNA11oN NOT YET
pIssIPATED-THE PRESIDENTS MIND SOMEWHAT
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ANXIOUS.
IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBuNEl
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.-Tha President is still
alive but the day can hardly be called one OF pro-
gress. The most hopeful thing that can be SAID is
that the bold statement of the evening bulletin
that the President has three times vomited dur
ing the afternoon and that feeding by the mouth
has again been stopped, may be explained upon an
other and less alarming bypCthcs than gastric dis
turbances Two or three days ago the President
who was sorely troubled hy gathering phegm said
to his physicians Il think l could clear my throat
if 1 could vomit." The physicians persuaded him
rather to endure tho bronchial difficulty
than to risk recurrence of the alarming
symptoms of the stomach which had pre-
ceded and we're then just being overcome.
An attendant who was near the sck-rooln early
this afternoon heard the President coughing aud
hawking loudly, with somc apparent distress
from phlegru. The obstruction at last gave way
and came up. but with it came the contents of the
stomach. There had been II nausea, and the physi-
clans assert no gastric disturbances whatever.
Whether, however this alters the case for the bet
ter, is a matter upon which opinions vary widely.
With the margin for remedial operations
presented in the necessarily enfeebled condition of
ali vital organs, the sation, even temporarily,
of rebuilding operations by of food taken in
the ordinary way, is suggestive of painful possibili
ties. Further waste without cOnpensating increase
seems almost inevitable
During the forenoon the fever increased contrary
to its common habit, ond created some appreheu-
sions. The vomiting seems in a mild degree to have
had an effect similar to that of one week ago. the
evening bulletin showing falling of in tenpera-
ture of two-tenths Of degree whereas its almost
constant habit has been to make hiGh,r record
The temperature is not, however, Oh the previous
occasion, alarmingly low. and It's decrease. it
not for its accompaniment of vomiting, would be re-
garded evidence of progress The pulse
which went up very high when the stomaGIis func.
tions were first suspended, has happily rot re-
sponded this time The glandual irritation the
supposed cause of the bronchial obstruction, has not
yet been disposed Of and the question asked but not
answered, is, =" How long will it continue to ere
ate mischief and prevent the admission of food to
the stomachl" The cessation of feeding by tic
mouth is precautionary measure. The phvsici aus
do not wish during the continuance ofthc bronchial
affection to give the stomach any provocaton.
Shreds of information picked up late this evening
and summarized give a little more reason for
hOpefulness, yet from any point of view ho outlook
critical. The members of the medical coun-
cil have been invisible fact which il itself is not
reassurlng. Information from Dr. Bliss at second
hand, is gusrdodly hopeful in its tenor
General Swain was asked tonight if the features
of the day to be interpreted as justification
for immediate alarm. " No, think not" was the
reply. The President tells me that ho has had no
nauseau, and that the stomach was all rizht. He
lies there on his back and sleeps, and the saliva
runs down his throat and tickes it, making HIM
cough and strain 70 get it out That is the origin of
the present trouble.7
Dr. Boynton was also asked if he was alarmed
by the symptoms manifested to-day "NoD he
said, not alarmed, but very anxious it puts ns ON
the anxious seat"
But you have stopped feeding him, and we
have no information as TO when you expect 70 re-
sumo food given by tho mouth"
9 We shall try to giyc him food by the mouth to
morrow morning again. have just given 1struc-
tons to prepare food III the morning.
hen the present suspension OF the functions Of
the stomach viii cer ,ainly end in the mornin ~
If no further symptoms like those of tbs after
noon manifest themselves"
what axe you doing to dissipato OF scatter the
glandular inilammatIonp p
We have had a salye plaster upon it all the time.
Ihis evening poultce has been substituted. There
IS no nus there; only the Inflammation remains
Inns excies the tonss and throat, and creates tho
tickling aud the phlegm."
Are there any other features of the davis h story
that have attracted especial attention r'
Nothing, except increased weakness. Uo 10 ,
little weaker than he was last night lie finds 4 j,
Itte more difficult 70 move his limbs and his puIae
huetuates more from time to limc. His mind olso
seems to be affected by his exceeding weakness
sometime before going to sleep tonight his mind
was wandering, and at times after waking it is
sometimes few minutes before lie regains con
seriousness SO as to know what is going on around
ni'h' LOOK forward with greater anxiety TO tie
ooveiopments OF the next twelve hours than have
iei' iof some time. If the surgeons are able to nd
munster iood by the month tomorrow morning and
Al Is retained there VIII be reason for renewed en-
couragement." VIZ
OPINIONS OF THE PHYSICIANS.
CAUSE OF THE PRESIDENTS s1Yrpr rse ,,,c,,r
AiiNsifI TO REDUCE THE INFIAai,fATroy or
WY