Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-13
Rerie,c of the Day.

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| LONG BRANCH, Sept. IL. To-day has beel
favorable throughout according to attending
surgeons, and the President is pronounced
again on the road to recovery. Much sur
| prise and comment is occasioned by the sud
| den fuctuatiop, but the surgeons insist this if
| to be expected. The weather affects him
According to the statement OF attending sur
geons the pulse from ITO at noon to 100 al
evening dressing, and temperature from 80
at noon to 9S.6 in the evening, showing there
was comparatively no fever. At 6 O'Clock in
the evening the cabinet received assurances
there was no immediate danger, and that the
threatened relapse had apparently passed away.
The good news received from the sick room
Las had an enlivening effect, and tonight the
attendants and surgeons are in good spirits
and feel encouraged. Four hours ago they
were depressed and exceedingly apprehensive.
After the evening bulletin was issued DR..
Bliss said this was one of the good days; that
the President was decidedly better, and that
he had expressed himself as feeling improved
on several occasion.
The doctor is very positive in his statement
tonight that all fears of the formation of a
pus cavity in the right lung have passed away;
that he has reason to believe the cause of the
dullness indicated in the lower portion of the
organ is under control. At least, said he, 1t
The doctor maintains it would necessarily
cause the temperature to rise where it has
fallen. DR.. Bliss says DR.. Agnew is in perfect
accord with that opinion.
When asked to what he attributed the dull
ness manifested by the lung IN daily sound
ings, he took the same ground as he did last
night, holding that it was caused by the
wound or track of the bullet. That it was
limited lobular Inflammation, and that it
would be overcome by his vitality. He was very
emphatic in his statements tonight that there
were no indications of assesses, and believed
now the lung affected had not assumed any
greater proportions since he has been here,
and it had been uoticed more than three weeks
ago. Referring to the glandular complica-
lions the doctor said that there is still very
small opening in the last incision, but it is
getting along very satisfactorily and the swell
ing has entirely subsided. The cough is i'm
proved, the doctor says, ana the patient now
expectorates without being annoyed
with the hacking he recently experienced
He has coughed but very little during the day,
and each time raised considerable quantity
of mucous, which was of good character, and
had nothing about it to indicate an abscess.
He attributes the whole trouble in this con-
nection to the secretion OF mucous from the
parotid gland, which gradually worked down
the throat, causing Inflammation, and result
ing in desire of the patient to throw it off,
which was being successfully accomplished.
The doctor was asked a number of ques-
tions about the ball and he explained there
was some doubt in his mird up to this morn
ing whether the track of the ball was
thoroughly healed or not, notwithstanding
the indications were that it had. ''This
morning, however," said the doctor, ''I be-
came satisfied on inserting new and
much smaller cleansing catheter that
the ball had become thoroughly
encysted and that granulation had
been the means of closing the wound
from the ball within nine inches of the surface,
the distance to which the catheter penetrated
without any extreme effort on my part. The
catheter came in contact with an apparent sol
id substance when it had penetrated nine
inches, and became satisfied after inyestiga-
ton it had healed solidly, and that it was no
artificial matter which was stopping the cathe-
ter.
The doctor then explained that he was stIll
giving him milk punch every three or four
hours, with which he put three spoonfuls of
brandy. Quinine had also been administered
in decreased quantities. The doctor does not
think febrle rise tonight, if it appeats at all,
will be severe.
During Blaines absence from Long Branch
Drs. Agnew and Hamilton will furnish ma
terial for daily bulletins. At 1880 to night
the President was sleeping, and, in the opinion
of Drs. Hamilton and Agnew there was every
prospect for a favorable night. There has
been no indications of febrile rise. Tempera-
ture and respiration normal His pulse has
not been taken during the day, and he has
taken nourishment freely, and there has been no
further annoyances from his stomach When
Secretary Hunt called on him to-day he in
formed him there was no business in his de-
partmept requiring his (President's) attention.
The day as a whole cannot but be said to have
been favorable one. The President expresses
himself as feeling better, and no further de-
have occurred in the vicinity of
the right lung