Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-27
wAKEFUL AND DELIRIoUs.

Change observed Last NigEt.
WAKEFUL AND DELIRIOUs.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, August 26, $50 A.
NJ. [Official Bulletin. THE President slept
most of the night, awakening at intervals
Of half an hour to an hour. On the first
awakening there was, as has been for several
nights past, the same mental confusion,
which disappeared when he was fullyroused,
and occasionally he muttered in his sleep.
These symptoms have abated this morning,
as on previous days. At present his tenn
perature is slightly above normal and his
pulse little more frequent than yesterday
morning. Pulse los, temperature 80. ], res
piration II.
D. W. BLISS. j. K BARNES.
J. J. WOODWARD. ROBT. REYBURN.
FRANK H. HAMILTON.
ga CLEAN OF HoPE.n
M.-But very little information was
obtained direct from the physicians concern
ing the condition OF the President this
morning prior to the issuance of the morning
bulletin. The absence Of all reference in
the bulletin to the general condition OF the
President and to the parotid swelling was
at once noticed and commented upon by
those waiting for It. The situation is con-
sidered by many as less hopeful than 1t was
last night at midnight, and by others as
more so.
Attorney General MacVeagh pronounces
# extremely critical, and when asked this
morning how long he thought this suspense
would continue, replied:
"God only knows"
glov,, To- nd fnrNs
Hunt telegraphed to Thurlow Weed:
"a CLEAN of hope, at ten a. m, comes
from the surgeons. His symptoms are no
worse and an improvement not impOssi-
ble."
A SEEMING IMPROVEMENT.
DIR. Bliss came out OF the surgeons room
about $3.50 this morning and telegraphed to
his wife that the President was a little bet
ter than last night. In reply to interroga-
tories, he said that the Presidents pulse
this morning was less frequent and that the
parotld swelling had broken into the right
ear and was dischsrging through that
orifce. The Presidents mind was clear,
and be cOnVersed nationally with the sur
geons about the condition OF the infamed
gland He partOOk of food, which seemed
to be grateful to him, and bis general con
lition appeared to be q little improved.
The doctor expressed himself as hopeful
that the swollen gland would be relieved by
the discharge through the ear, and that he
would pull through the day without much
change.
SECRETARY KIRKwOOD GIVES THE GROUNDS
FOR HOPE.
1910 A. M-Secretary Kirkwood came
ont Of the Cabinet room a few moments
since, and 10 reply to questions asked by q
reporter of the Associated Press gave the
following statement of the Presidents case
as he understands it this morning:
Il have never thought" he said, "until
last night, that the President would die, but
the information We received from the sur
geOns late ia the evening was of such 4
character as 10 leave very little room for
hope. The danger which then seemed most
imminent was the danger Of absorption OF
unhealthy pus from the swollen paTOtid
gland, mental disturbance and increased
pulse, which seemed to indicate that this
process OF absorption had already begun
aad that it was poisoning the blood. and
thus acting upon the brain and heart"
Taking up a small eggshaped piece Of
sponge which lay on the reporters table the
Secretary continued: GAS / understand the
case, from what the surgeons have told me,
the Presidents right parotid gland is in
some respects like this sponge. Everywhere
through it there are little cells or pockets,
in each of which there is an accumulation
of pus. The incisiOn which was made the
day before Yesterday pierced one OF these
pockets and released the pus which that
particular one contained, but it did not
drain the Others, and in fact the others
could not be effectually drained at this
stage of the suppuration by single incis-
ion made anywhere. The fear last night
was that the pus retained in these small
cavities would become unhealthy, and, as
l before said, result in acute
blood poisoning. DIR. Bliss told
US, however, last night just before we went
home, that he had not given up hope of a
favorable change during the night, and the
surgeons thiuk this morning that there has
been such a slight change for the better, as
Dr. Bliss hoped for. The breaking OF
the suppurating gland into the cavity of
the ear will, Il is thought, afford more
relief than could be given in any other way,
aud it is therefore regarded as favorable
symptom. The discharge through that
channel seems to be free. Tne pus is thus
far of a healthy character, and the PATIENTS
mind this morning is clearer than last Eight,
showing there has been no blood poisoning
of consequence from the gland as yet. TAX
ing everything into consideration, l think
there is reason this morning for little more
hope.
FAINT HOPES REVIVED.
Ills A. M-Secretary Lincoln, upon COM
ing out of the Cabinet room this morning,
was asked by a reporter of the Associated
Press what he thought of the Presidents
condition. "Well," he said, "there is just
enough encouragement this morning to re
vive the faint hope, which [ had up to last
night, that the President would pull
through. From what the surgeons told
US yesterday evening l received the
impression that the swollen parotid
gland had very much the character
of a severe and dangerous carbuncle, which
was enough of itself to bring well man
very low, even if it did not cause his death.
With this impression hope pretty much left
me. This morning, however, feel again a
little encouragement"
upon what groundP"
"Well, the inhamed gland, l am told,
looks better than it did last night, and is
dischargiDg quite freely through the ear.
This the surgeons regard as favorable, and
it seems so to me. | think, too, that the
general condition of the patient is
a little improved to-day. His mind
acts better aud grasps ideas more
readily than It did last night, and
there has been this morning none of the
incoherency of speech which was then
noticed. If he were getting worse. do not
think this would be the case. Upon the
whole, therefore, l think we are justified in
feeling slightly more encouraged. The case
is not entirely hopeless"
DIR. WOODWARD NOT DISCOURAGED.
1I:3O A. M-Dr Woodward, upon being
asked at II O'Clock whether there is any
reason today for increased hope, replied:
''There is certainly no reason for less
hope. The pus is being drained quite freely
from the iutlamed gland through the ear"
SIS there any danger that the pus will
find its way down the throst?"
81 think not. Nothing but mucus has
been found in the throat as yet"
''What do you hope most for to-day?"
"We hope that the incisiOn made in the
face aud the drain through the ear will take
the pus from the gland?"
HIS GENERAL CONDITION UNCHANGED.
M-Seeretary Blaine, who has just left
the Executive Mansion, says that the sur
geons are still feeling a little more hopeful
in regard to the Presidents case
than they did last night, on
account of the continued outflow
of pus from this infamed gland through
the ear. The general condition of the
patient, however. has not, he says, mate
rally changed. During the morning the
pulse has been fairly steady, but is now
little higher than at $50.
HIS CONDITION STILL CRITICAL.
1870 A. NJ. [Oficial Bulletin. lat the
morning examination OF the President It
was observed that pus from the parotid
swelling had found its way spontaneously
into his right external auditory meatus,
through which it was discharging.
Some pus was also .discharging through
the incision made into the swelling.
His wound looks as well as it has done for
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