New-York tribune., 1881-09-17
ANXIETY AGAIN EXCITED


LETINs-rHE PATIENT WEAK AND TROUBLED
WITH CoUGHING-THE STOMACH IN GOOD
CONDITION.
The condition of the President yesterday
,,oS such as to renew the public anxiety that
had recently been somewhat allayed. At times
in the course of the night of Thursday he
coughed a good deal Yesterday afternoon
the coughing was not persistent, but the
sputa was p,rulent. The wound was not so
healthy in appearance, and the discharge was
thin and watery. At times his respiration was
%. The patient is described as being very
weak. His stomach acted well yesterday, and
the President took more nouIishment than
usual.
THE SYMPTOMS RATHER UNFAVORABLE.
GENERAL ANXIETY WITHOUT WELL DEFINED CAUSE
THE WOUND DIsCHARGING LESS FREELY AND
THE MATTER LESS HEALTHY-BED SORES AGAIN
ANNOYING-THE DIsQUIETING FEATURES OF THE
CAS- NOTED IN THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. NoUR-
IsIIMENr TAKEN THAN USUAL
IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIMMED
LONG BRANCH, Sept 16.-The condition of at
fairs tonight is exceedingly difficult to describe.
There Is universal anxiety with no definite cause OF
origin vet none the less positive. How much OF III
is due to the depressing weather. how much to the
franness of the bulletins of to-day, and what pro-
portion is justified by the undeniaby unfavorable
SYMPTOMS of the President it is impossible to say
The condition of the President is not satisfactory
yet the agg egate loss, as compared with the most
favorable moment since his arrival at Long Branch,
is but trifling while in comparison with his "ondl-
ton at Washington there is yet found q balance in
his favor.
The doctors when asked to point out the features
of the illness in which recession has been noted,
become somewhat indefinite. except in respect TO
the wound, which has lost its promising appearance
of two or three days ago and is now discharglng
less matter than the day before yesterday and OF
more watery character and less healthy color. This
is more significant as q symptom than OF danger
in itself The bed sores which afflicted him
in Washington, but which had nearly healed, have
again become annoying, but they neither
dangerous in themselves nor symptoms of
danger in their relations. They simply the re-
suit OF friction and pressure. They two three
in number, each about the size of a dime. These
features, while grave enough III the cas- of a man
so near TO deaths door as the President has been
for eleven weeks, do not compared with the very
recent past, warrant onehaf that has been said or
published of a gloomy character to-day. The
frankness of the bulletins to-day in their illusions to
the disQuieting features of the disease should not
give rise to apprehension especially in the minds
of people who are here watching the
progress of the case for it is well known that the
change is in the bulletins, and rot In the patient
new standard of measurement having, as 1t were,
been set up.
In connection with this changed character of the
bulletins it is of interest and Importance to aude to
the unstinted criticism of which DR.. Bliss is the
subject The Doctor is his defender and has
asked no one become his apolOgist. He says that
his course has been consistent, and that i'll
the matter of blood-poisoning, which is the
main count in the against him, he
has expressed what he yet confidently believes, that
the septic conditions which he acknowledged were
once III Washington present i'll serious degree.
oil forn tie eli atp
he believes returned, and, while not acute In
their present state, give warrant for the anxiety
which he III common with the other physicians,
tertains. There has not, he ,serts, been the
slightest disagreement among the Presidents
physicians and far from having been outvoted in
the council, when it decided TO refer
TO the septic conditions of the patients
blood in the bulletin, he himself the
one who suggested that the reference be made.
While Dr. Bliss remains the surgeOn-in-charge of the
case it is important that he should not be dscred-
tied in the opinion of the public at large His rea
tions with the press and public are matters
In which either party may exercise wide lati-
tude of choice His treatment of the President is
another matter and in this regard one hears no
criticism. Very peril ent to this subject was a
mark made by Mr. MacVeagh to a correspondent of
TIE TRIBUNE this morning The At
torney General, as is well known, has from
the first entertained the belief that the
his recovery andn this respect he has been in strk
Ing o. as witt DR.. Bliss, whose optimism has been
universally known and discounted. "While have
not been able" said the Attorney TO ac-
cept DIR. Blss's views of the Presidents condition,
but the contrary have been forced to the conclu
sion that the President has been suffering from
poisoning of the blood for a considerable time,
/ have recognized the unexampled zeal and
devotion with which Dr. Bliss has attended the Pres
ident, and if the result be fatal. | shall always
feel that it due to the length gravity and tor
tuous character of the wound, making it impossible
for considerable time either to probe drain it
thoroughly"
In the early part of the day the Presidents pulse
stood for considerable tine at 12O, but about
noon it went down slightly. In the afternoon it
rose again, but soon dropped of considerably and
more comfortable afternoon was passed. This
evening there another rise in the ebrile symp-
toms. These symptoms show wider range. in
pulse especially, than has been officially stated
heretofore, but they are not unusual. The Presi-
dents stomach has been doing fairly well to-day
and he has taken more nourIshment than usual
Moreover while he has experienced momentary men
tai fluctuations due TO the lack of brain nourishment
be has on the whole been brighter than for several
days. One or two little remarks made by him to-
day illustrate this. When he lay gazing out upon
the surf, which has been running very high, he said
to General Swain that the time hasprobably arrived
when summer residents here would be leaving fOI
their homes-an opinion which exactly Ia lied with
the facts, every who get away is
preparing TO go, and majority has al
ready departed. When DIR. Bliss was taking