The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-07-14
Further Particulars of the Most Excit-
ing Event of the
Year.
No Check to the Steady Advance OF
President Garfield Toward Ply
steal Restoration.
An Interesting Installment Of Distin-
guished Medical Mems Opinions
of the Case.
TIE LONDON LANCET.


medical journal of London, says:
The accounts of the condition of Garfield are, on
the whole, satisfactory. They give reasonable
lis to be encountered. Secondary internal hemorr-
hage may occur when the bullet is sureically or &C
cldentally displaced. Extensive Inflammation or
as whole, and recalling the history Of similar
cases, it is impossible not to feel that fairly
gooc hope is permissible. 1t may be as
5e ~ sya by the bullet
portant structures tits scarcely possible that any
large vessel can have been injured. and hypotte-
injury of great nerves is not necessary to &C
count for pains in the lower extremities. The
liver If wounded can hardly have been extensively
next few days, and the bullet can be extracted.
there can be no medical reason at lean arising out
Of the general character of his injuries, why he
New YORK, July S.-Dr Hamilton is very
much encouraged over to-day's news from
Washington. He says:
:, The term "laudable pus" means healthy pus.
a very good sign indeed. OF course the president
cannot yet be said to be out of DANGER but there is
every reason to believe that all chances in his
while the location of the ball is unknown. There is
danger, but the symptoms reported indicate that
nature will take care of the ball.
LOBBY SURGEON
DR.. Norris is staunch friend of DR.. Bliss
and when asked about the trouble said: 81 was
the physician to the White House during the
tune of President johnson and when General
Grant was there, but when Mr. Hayes came I
did not remind him of the fact, and then Doc
tor or Colonel Baxter intruded and was recog-
nized. He is q confirmed lobbyist and draws
the So, 600 salary of a full colonel for his
services in looking over the papers of
the two deputy purveyors. 1t is one Of the
greatest elnecuIes in existence When
old Surgeon General Barnes, but he made a
bargain with Garfield by which Hayes ap-
pointed Maj. Swaims to be judge advocate
general because he was friend of Garfield,
and in return Garfield was to appoint Baxter
we're all expecting it, though there are num-
Der ofgood reasons against it. Just think Of
this. Ninety-fve officers of the medical de-
partment are Baxter's seniors. and their COM
missions antedate his, going back beyond
1861. They all served actively with volun-
teer troops during the rebellion They were
all breveted for faithful and meritorious SER
vices. The chief medical purveyor entered
the regular army as assistant purveyor to pur-
chase medicines and medical supplies On
March 2, 1872. he was put above all the sur
geons of the army, with the rank of lieutenant
colonel. On January %, 1874, he was placed
over the other two medical purveyors and made
the chief purveyor. with the rank of colonel
in the army. He now applies to the president
to be appointed over the only remaining officer
above him on the army register, the assistant
surgeon general, and to command US all, every
ono of whom entered the army by competitive
examination. His promotion to the surgeon
generalship would shut out all the other sur
geOns from such promotion for seventeen
years. Well, when he came into that con-
ference chamber you may be sure he was not
welcome man who was q better lobbyist
than practitioner, and who, by currying ia
VOr with the sergeant at arms, had gained the
run Of the cloak room. He would no doubt have
insisted upon attending at the next conference,
so by not having the conference there was no
chance of his intrusion. It avoided possible
complications. You see don't feel offended
in being thus politely dismissed, for I am in
good company That is the real basis of the
trouble We were Of one mind in our treat
worldwide fame as DR.. Hamilton, of New
York, and DR.. Agnew. of Philadelphia"
DIR, TOWNSEND IN NEW YORK HERALD.
Doctor, what do you think of the presi-
well, his condition is yet very critical We
can only hope for the best He may pull
through: God grant that he may This" said
tho doctor. was my first close contact with
James A. Garfield, and I think If the whole
American people could have seen his bearing
under the circumstances they would come to
revere HIM doubly. He Is indeed the modest
i.V"n VI s1en oil. Cooi, CAIN, clear, reso-
iute ana enduring, cheerful under great suf-
fering, grateful for every attention or assist
ance-I think his the grandest type of man
hood have yet Witnessed" -
Referring to the nature of the presidents
wound, DR.. Townshend says that his Judgment
or the course the bal took, from the exa1nina-
ton he made of the wound at the depot. is that
the ball entered two inches to the right of the
fourth lumbar verbetrB, passed through the
1ntercostal muscle, between the tenth and elev-
enth ribs, fracturing the upper edge of the
eleventh rib then into and through the liver
the latter not affording resistance enough to
stay iD into the abdominal cavity, where it
substance on the opposite side
which could have been nothing else but the
ribs and possibly directed to the spinal column.
He says the very fact Of the presidents having
a partial paralysis of the extremities shows
that the spinal column has been injured. The
doctor added that he considered the president
IN as much danger now as at any period since
he was shot, and that ne came near diving the
hrst night from internal hemorrhage and had
~ Kept up much longer he certainly would
danger of peritonitis to pass through,
and symptoms of its ADVENT in a more
or less degree have shown themselves
right along. Yet he might escape peritonitis
entirely tor IT it did once set in it might carry
him OIL, although his strong physique might
probably carry him through safely The doc
tor says that he received at the battle of
Shiloh shot in some respects similar to that
OF the presidents, only the ball that struck
him was Mimic ball Of one and a quarter
ounces, or little larger than that shot from
Guiteau's pistol
:, ut was glancing shot, which passed
through my sword-belt over the crest of the
1llum, passed down over the pelvis and came
out over the groin l could not walk for four
months, as the fracture of the bone of the pelyis
was considerable. Of course was not struck in
any of the vital organs, as the shot came from
a prominence and took downward course.
Quite the contrary ID the case with the presi-
dent, as the ball was sent straight at him. A
singular feature of my wound was that eleven
years after it had healed up it became infamed
and troublesome, and | had physician, a
friend of mine in this city, to open and probe
it This resulted in bringing out small piece
of my leather belt that had been carried in by
the ball" The doctor concluded by saving he
could in candor state that in all his experience
he had never known of q shot similar in it's
character to that received by the president
DR. CARNoCHAN's VIEWS
Dr. Carnochan, when asked by Herald re-
porter whether he had an accurate knowledge
OF the character Of President Garield's wound.
replied that he had not obtained complete data,
but that in addition to having read newspaper
accounts he had had some conversation with