The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-08-21

j. j. WOODWARD.
j. X. BARNES.
ROBERT REYBuRN.
FRANK HAMILTON.
ID. HAYES AGNKw.
Unofficial bulletin, Executive Msnsion.-
DR.. Bliss feels much encouraged at the con-
dilion he finds his patient in this morning
He reports him having passed a comfortable
night, sleeping considerable at intervals.
About o'clock this morning his pulse
ranged a, SO and his temperature was appar-
emily about normal.
Unofficial bulletin, Executive Mansion,
ll40 u. m.-ln response to an inquiry, DR..
Boynton said at Ills q. IN. that the pres-
dent continues TO improve slowly, and that
every thing is favorable. II is worthy of notice
that the oondi,ioa ofthe patient this morn.
ing. as shown by the $50 bulletin, was bet
ter, so far rs his pulse, temperature and res
piralion are concerned, thao at
any corresponding hour during the
past eleven days On the OH of Augus, the
patients pulse at the morning examination
was 9S; temperature 80; respiration II.
Since that time his pulse has never been be.
low l00 morning or evening, until to-day,
when 1t was again 99 with temperature and
respiration correspondingly improved Itis
hoped that this fall Of pulse below 100 iDdi-
Gates q gradual return to the favorable con.
dition which existed about week bef Jre the
last operation.
Unofficial bulletin, Executive Mansion,
1915 p. m.--The president has taken
nourishment through the mouth several
times to-day and in considerable quantities
, In all he has swallowed about ten ounces Of
| nd f,I Af nj ,,,,h
any indications of gastric disturbance Ii
has not been thought prudent up to the
present time to give him ans other kinds OF
liquid food, but juice of c beefsteak is being
prepared and will be- tried soon. II II be re.
tanned and sssimulated, beef juice will hence
forth be given every day.
Official bulletin, Executive mansion,
1890 p m.-The president continues TO do
woll He is taking liquid food By mouth
in increased gu nifty, and with rrish. The
nutritive enemsta are still successfully given,
but at .onger intervals. His pusc is now
morning dressing the wound was looking
we'll and the pus discharge was of . healthy
character. After the operation CT August
8, flexible tubs wss used to wash Gu lba
!, wound at each dreaeing. II readily followed
VI
four inches Al the morning dressing how.
ever. small quantity Of healthy pus came,
as WAS believed, from a part of the track
!, beyond this point, either spontaneously or
q after slight pressure over the surface of the
q track was not reached by the tube until Yea
terday morning, when the suppuration Of a
small slough permmitted II TO pass unrpsisted
downward ard forward for Distance Of
, twelve ana half inches from the external
surface Of the last iDcison. The facilities fci
drsinsge. and cleaniog Of the paris Of the
wound arc good, but have not
been followed by any increase Of pus dis,
charged. The large pus cavity which has
formed 10 the immediate vicinity of the
broken rib is filling up with healthy granu.
lstions and tho original wound Of the en-
trance as far ae that cavity, has healed
ID. w. BLISS.
ROBERT REYBURN
ID. HAYES AoNEw,
FRANK HHMILT0N
.. X BARNES.
j. j. WOODWARD
Executive Mansion, 10 a m. During con
verss,ion with DR. Bliss this morning he
spoke Of u mistake which occurred in tie
regarding the use of an instrument in com &C
ton with tho wound. He says he appears
TO have been understood TO cay thai the
flexible tube used for clearing the wound had
not been put into the wound fur ther than
three md q half inches. "What in,entei
10 say" continued the doctor, twas that no
probe penetrated the wound beyond that
depth" Ho y fur ibe flexible cleaning tube
hal tue nd ipt h..
would ascertain exactly and probably mems
tion the fact In one Of to.dsy's bullelos.
Unofficial bulletin, Executive mansion,
4:l6 p. m.-Df. Boynton came out Of the
presidents room about half-psst three this
evening and made the following rcp!i,s, the
subjoined questions, which were asked him
BY representatives of the New York sssoci-
ated prees:
Doctor, there Ia a report in circulation TO
the effect that the surgeons had In view In in-
Producing the tube TO the depth Of the
wound yesterday and to-day, to reach the
supposed accumula ion Of pu, in ,ha. vicin.
ity. Was there any euch introducuony
Not at oil. While washirg the wou.d
yesterday The surgeons found there wss 40
longer any resistance 70 the passage Of the
tube at the point where 1t rad heretofore
| etobpeu, 'hitc hhu uht VT lOuT uCutt
from tho surface, and they therefore Let II 90
in as fer as II would. No force was used. Il
vent In about eleven inches the frat ,ipe
direction downward and onward from the
mouth Of tho wound. Sincs then, as stated 10
.o-days bulletin, II has been passed into
depth Of IL 2 inches.
That There was no increased l9w of pus
after tho withdrawal Of tho tube Il n fac
taken by those who maintsin tho blood
po'son theory IA an Indication tha, pus 10 tue
deeper psrts of tho wound had been 40
sorbed. Ia this soi
Healthy pus Is never absorbed and cst'l
bo absorbed. There is no foundation for any
such theory.
Did mol tho intrc duction of tho tube, a
iist'ice Of IL IL inches, give the surgeons
J some further evidenie with regard 10 III,
lor.,ion Of the bal
M, much. The tube was flexible rubber
'n'he'er used In washing out the wound, sro
: se could only In generul way give ,h,
: direction which II took through the bed,
Tbst direction was forward snd down ward
} toward . point In the Ipiericr wall of III.
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