New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-02
PRESIDENT GARFIELD.

HIS IMPROVEMENT STILL UNCHECKED.
daIs APPETITE VERY GOOD AND ALL HIS SYMPTOMS
ENCOURAGING THE BRIGHTEST HoPEs-ExPERi-
MENTs WITH THE INDUCTION BALANCE CoN-
QUOTED WITH SUCCESS
It is apparently agreed on all sides at Wash
ineton that the official bulletins respecting the
Presidents condition leave little to be said.
There have recently been no marked changes,
the Improvement being steady, though some
what slow. Yesterday the Presidents appetite
was good, and the physicians permitted him
to partake of coffee. Professor Bell and MIR.
Taintor conducted successful experiments with
the induction balance to locate the bullet.
TAKING THE FIRST CUP OF COFFEE.
THE PRESIDENTS BILL OF FARE A LITTLE EN-
LARGED-HE STILL RELIsHEs KoUMiss-THE
WOUND DOING WE'LL IN EVERY WAY AND THE
PATIENT ON THE WAY TO RECOVERY.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-The Presidents case to-day
has presented no features of especial Importance
which have not already been noticed in the official
bulletins. His appetite has been rather better than
il was yesterday. He has partaken more freely OF
solid food and his bill of fare has been extended to
embrace several things hitherto forbidden incud-
ing coffee of which he drank half cup to-day for
the first time The surgeons continue to give him
koumiss occasionally in the place of an equal guam
tty of milk, and although this mild stinnlant has
little to recommend it to the TASTE the Presi
dent expresses q decided liking for 1T and drinks it
eagerly.
The patients wound discharged freely at the
evening dressing and it's appearance was IN every
way satisfactory. The afternoon fever was light
and passed off earlier than usual, and the President
went to sleep and has been sleeping most OF the time
since.
His pulse is now below 100 and his temperature
and respiration are normal
THE INDUCTION BALANCE TRIED.
FyppRINfeNTc Py ppOEFgSOR REL AND MIR. TAINTOR
WITH THE OBJECT or LOCATING THE BULLET IN
THE PREsIDENT's BoDY-TIE RESULT REPORTED
TO THE SURGEONS.
FIX rELEGRArH 70 TIE rRrBuvs.I
WAsHINGToN Aug las foreshadowed by dis
patch sent to The TRIBUNE last evening Professor
A. Graham Bell and Mr.. Talntor made experiments
this morning with tho changed ana perfected induc
ton balance with the purpose and hope of locating
with defniteness the position of the bullet in the
body of the President.
Professor Bell made the following statement or
report to the surgeons respecting the experiment:
VOLTA LABORATORY !, 22l CoNNEcrIcuT-AyE; ;
To ne Surgeons upon Presideat GARFIEfp.
brief statement Of tie results obtained With the new
morning for the purpose Of locating the bullet u the
person Of the President The instrument was tested for
aud i was found to respond, well to the & pre-
four inches FROM the coils. When the exploring coils
passed. over that part Of the abdomen where
July 26 feeble tone perceived hut the effect
audible a considerable distance around this spot The
sounds feeble to be entirely satisfactory,
had reason to expect from the extreme seuvcness of
the instrument much marked effect. III order
ascertain whether similar sounds might not be obtained
In other localities, explored the whole right side and
back below the point of entrance of the bullet but
except of about inches in diane
ter, containing within il the spot previously
found to be sonorous. The experiments
repeated by Mr. Tantor, who obtained exactly
spending results. We therefore justified in cOnelud-
that ball Is located within the above named
In preliminary experiments found that bullet
like the IN question, when in its normal shape
half inchcs while the bullet, hattened and pre-
sented with it's face parallel To the plane of the coils
Indications to distance OF five inches. The
httened bullet held with its face perpcnd ,uar
TO the plane Of the coils produced sound beyond
tance OF inch The facts show that in ignorance OF
To the exploring instrument the depth at which the bu
let lies beneath the surface cannot be determined from
our experiments. am gentlemen, yours truly,
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL.
In conversation this morning DIR. Bliss said he be
leves the bullet hes from an inch to an inch and d
half below the surface. There was no mned ate
purpose OF extracting the ball. he said but the ex-
pertinent had set al rest all doubt i'll regard to its
position, and in so far the treatment of the pa
tient might be influenced by that knowledge the ex-
pertinent would have Immediate value. DR.. Bliss
said Professor Bell was a very cautious man, and in
his letter had not set forth explicitly he might
have done the completeness of his success.