Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-08-21

THE HIDE0US GHOST, FEAR,
WILL NOT DOWN AT THE
BIDDING OF HOPE.
The Terrible Ghastliness Of tn g
Presidents Wound
The Cause for Very Great Anxiety
and Apprehension.
Lengthy Interview With DR..
Boynton by the New York
Associated Press - d .@A%
The Latest Official Bulletin from
the Surgeons Encouraging.
WASHINGTON, August 20.

WASHINGTON, August 20.
UNOFFICIAL BULLETIN.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, 7.45 a. M
DIR. Bliss feels much encouraged at
the condition he finds bis patient in
this morning. He reports him as
having passed comfortable night,
sleeping considerable at intervals.
About I o'clock this morning his
pulse ranged at 96, and his tempera-
ture was apparently normal.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
EXECUTIVE MANSION, $50 a. m.--
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 SO, tenn
perature 9S.4, respiration Is. n
Signed DIV. Bliss, J. X. Barnes,
J. J. Woodward, Robt. Reyburn,
D, Hayes Agnew.
UNOFFICIAL BULLETIN.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, IL 40 a. M
In response to an inquiry, DIR. Boyn-
ton said, at 11,15 a. m, that The
President continues to improve
slowly, and that everything is favor
able. 1t is worthy of notice that the
condition of the patient this morn>
ing, as shown by the $50 bulletin
was better, SO far as pulse, tempera-
ture and respiration are concerned,
than any corresponding hour during
the past eleven days. On the 9th OF
August the patients pulse at the
morning examination was 9S, tenn
perature 99S, respiration 10
Since that time his pulse
has never been below 100, mornin I
or evening, until to-day, when it was
again SO, with temperature and res
piration correspondingly improved
1t is hoped that this fall of the pulse
below 100 indicates a gradual return
to the favorable condition which ex-
listed about a week before the last
operation.
UNOFFICIAL BULLETIN.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, 1856 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 koumiss and four ounces
of milk cruel without any indica-
tions of gastric disturbance. 1t hss
not been thought prudent, up tc
the present time, to give him any
other kinds of liquid food, but the
juice of beef steak is being prepared
and will be tried soon. If it is re
tanned and assimulated, beef juice
will henceforth be given every day
Enemata was also administered tt
the patient this forenoon, consisting
of three and one-half ounces of bee
extract with the yolk of an egg.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
EXECUTIVE MANSION, 1890 p. M
The President continues to do well
He is taking liquid food by moutl
10 increased quantities and with rel
ish. Nutritive enemata are still sue
cessfullv given, but at longer inter
walls. His pulse is now lO7, tempera
ture SO, respiration Is. At the morn
ing dressing the wound was LOOKING
well, and the pus discharge was of .
healthy character. After the opera
ton of August the 9Th, the fexibl'
tube used to wash out the wound a
each dressing readily followed tht
track of the ball to the depth o
three and half or four inches. A
the dressings, however, small quan
tity of healthy pus came, as was be
lieved, from the part of the track be
yond this point, either spontaneousl,
or after a gentle pressure over tht
anterior surface of the right lilac re-
sion, but this deeper part of tht
track was not reached by tube unit
yesterday morning, when the sup
puration Of a small slough permitted i
to pass unresisted downward and for
ward for distance of twelve and one
half inches from the external surface
of the last inciscion. This facilitated
the drainage and cleaning of The
deeper parts of the wound, but has
not been followed by any increase il
the quantity of the pus discharged
The large pus cavity which has
formed in the immediate vicinity ot
the broken rib is filling up with
healthy granulations, and the origi
nal wound of the entrance, as far as
that cavity, has healed.
[Signedl d. w. Bliss, J. X
Barnes, J. J. Woodward, Robert
Reyblrn, D. Hayes Agnew.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, 10 a. m.-Dur
ing conversation with DR.. Bliss
this morning. he spoke of a mistake
which occurred in a telephone inter
view with him late last night, regard
ino tho ,7co Of an instrument in cOD,