Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-07-07
THE GREAT SURGEONS HOPEFUL,
DIR, HI RmilfOn,a Views,

L
| THAN TRERE WAS REASON TO EXPECT.
| lSDectal dispatch to the Philadelphia Press.
| The encouraging news from the White
House today" said DR.. Hamilton, who had re-
Presidents condition from the attending ply
sicians, gives much additional ground for
| hope that the President Will recover. From
tne hrst the lapse of time has been an en-
courag1Dg factor, tut at this stage, the end OF
| the NTH day, the chances OF recovery, you
! may say, increase In geometrlcaI ratio. While
the danger is not passed 1t is becoming lessened
more rapidly than there was reason TO expect
| from fhe supposed nature OF the injury. There
| IS yet an unknown quantity 10 the case that
makes speculation extremely difficult. The
course and position OF the bau have not as yet
been determined
Are there at present any symptoms or are
tney absent that lead to the hope that the liver
may not have been injured as much as was az
first suprosed?"
If the liver was seriously injured, as has
been supposed. the present symptoms are
much more favorable than could naturally be
expected. Furthermore, will say that / am
not without hope, notwithstanding much tes-
timony to the contrary, that the ball, having
struck the edge Of rin, was DETECTED and took
a course which did not seriously 1njure any OF
the vital organs. Even so far as the liver Is
concerned, II Is strong source OF encourage.
ment that It's functions do not seem yet to be
lercept1oly impaired. SO far az we have been
informed there is not up to this moment, any
yellownesS OF the skin. such as mus sooner or
later inevitably result from serious injury to
that organ"
"How soon after an Injury OF this nature to
the liver has been inflicted does this yellowIsh.
ness OF the skin appear"
1.-THE time is, of course, variable: but in those
cases Which have come under my own obSerVa-
zion this symptom had usually appeared Oh
the third or fourth day. and IL may show Itself
ee.i ner.
SIT has been stated that there is a case OF Il
Eian who recovered from a guns1ot wound or
the liver. from which the bah WAS never re-
moved. Do you credit the statement?7
We'll, without saying that it is impo .slbla,
! must say am very skeptieal regarding II.
Here Is a question. How was 1t known til &c the
call remained In that ofgan?"
III the ball Is somewhere In the Abdominal
be much difficulty in cutting it out?'
when an abscesS Is formed around II you
can cut down to 1t With perfect safety
ARE you yet satisfied that the intestines
"From reports received from the attending
physicians today 1t may De asserted With al
most absolute certainty toat they have entirely
escaped.
DIR. Hamilton said further that another day
aS favorable 10 the patient as yesterday and the
day before would warrant a still higher degree
OF cheerfuiness: and that while It could not be
OF Inflammation, Jet the prosabilitieS were that
there would Lot be.
DR.. sAYRE HOPEFUL
DR.. L. A. Sayre, referring to the favorable
symptoms reported by the various bulletins,
said that II they continue they would make the
nations heart bound with JOY. "There is still
danger" said the physician, "of secondary
There may also arise some danger from suppl
ration. But from the improved methods OF
treatment by antiseptics, or, more properly
speaking, ListeIisLn, the danger Is reduced to
minimum. The stomach, gall and bladder must
have been saved from any great hurt, Or the
sym..,.Sfns 1enoting such injury would have
| Lnarifssie0 themselves ere nov. Tue bes
| symptom that has come 10 my knowIedg5 IL the
| report that the President had asked Dr. Bliss to
| give him beefsteak. Judging from the re
| ports. consider the probabilities are greatly
| the medical men who are attending the Presi-
| dent and In their treatment. " Is proper TO
| let him alone. 80 that he nay have chance to
| get We'll. His is just one OF those cases where
| The exercise OF great Judgment IA necessary not
TO do too much. The time for surgical inter
| 1erences has not yet arrived"
| DR.. CARNOCHAN SEES REASON FOR HOPE
DR.. j. NJ. Carnochan, OF New York, said last
| night: "Of course can only form an opinion
| from what information has reached me through
one chanel or another. After the fourth day
the grave symptoms OF peritonitis. or Of copi-
| GUS internal hemOIrhage, or % eXtravasatton
OF any OF the contents Of the important secre-
tive organs, or Of the intestinal tube not hav-
ing been signalized With any degree OF severity,
the first serious symptoms TO be dreaded, seen
| TO have been brldged overall OF which uu.
doubtedly tends toward forming favorab. e
| prOgnOsis."
what are now the dangers TO be- anticl-
pate0?"
"Suppurauion may occur, and In broken
down constitutions purulent absorption, pro-
ducing poisoning Of the blood, or pyaemta
might take place and prove destructive OF life.
| Or, II the bullet has passed near large vessel
| so as to produce slough OF the coats OF that
| vessel, profuSe secondary hemorrhage might
| take place TO such an extent as to threaten
| life or the formation Of an aoceSS might serve
| as an unfavorable tntercurrent complication "
"Do you think these unfaVorable symptoms
may occuI?"
"In a physical organization and tempera
| ment SO perfect as Is that Of President Garfield
such complications. while possible. are much
| less probable than In q man possessing phys
teal constitution OF an Indifferent or a cachec
tic character"
ado you suppose that he may be crippled?7
$50 far, although faint symptoms OF injury
| to some OF the nerves have been evident, YET
| no signs OF injury to the spinal marrow has
been enumerated among his other symptoms
and c0nsequently.para need not be dreaded
| or anticipated. During the next ten days sew
eral complications may occur; and II 1t prove
| that the cavity OF the perftoneum has not beer
| encroached upon, and II the symptoms do no
show themselves OF Purulent absorption or o
diffusive Inflammation Of the peritOneum, there
Is great reason to believe that the recuperattvt
powers OF the system will lead TO q favorable
termination OF the Presidents case"
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