The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-07-19
UNOFFICIAL BULLETINS.

6.oO A. M.
The President passed restful night His
pulse, temperature and respiration are about
the same as yesterday morning.
1900 A. M.
The Presidents progress towards GONZALES
cence noted in the official bulletins Of Satur-
day, steadily continues. He feels greatly re-
freshed by the restful, unbroken sleep which
he bad last night and which was materially as
sisted by the agreeable change in the weather.
His pulse is gradually lessening, now being
SO with normal temperature and respiration.
He will receive for breakfast beefsteak, toast
and meat juice and porched eggs, and later on
little oat meal cooked to jelly. 1t is deem
ed best by the surgeons to give him soldid sub
stantial food in the morning, disseminating it
at one o'clock, after which time only liquid
nourishment is administered.
[1P.M.]
The condition of the President has not ma
terially changed since morning. He has no
fever and is resting quietly. Pulse 80, tenn
perature and respiration normal.
The President showed his own confidence in
his recovery very plainly yesterday. He asked
how soon he would be allowed to sit up, and
was told that it would be within ten days. He
then inquired how soon they would allow him
to take trip down the river in the Dispatch
His mind seemed to run through the day much
on his desire to sit up, and to get off on the
water He evidently thinks he can do both at
an earlier day than the physicians name to
him. In fact the chances now seem to be that
he will be sitting up by tho end of the present
week.
[4.3O P. NJ
The President has passed comfortable day
and is making favorable progress He mani
tests increasing interest in public affairs and
has just sent to his private secretary for an
evening paper.
[11.30 P. Nj
The Presidents afternoon fever was littls
more strongly marked tonight than last night.
his pulse showing an increase of four beats,
temperature rise of five-tenths, and respira.
ton slight corresponding acceleration as
compared with the maxima of yesterday. In
any other patient this trifing increase in in
tensity of the fever would be regarded as
natural huctuation and would not excite es-
pecial remark, but the Presidents symptoms
are SO closely watched from day to day and al
most from hour to hour by the whole country
that an unfavorabe change, however slight,
seems to have greater significance than really
attaches to it and is liable in the absence Of
explanation to cause apprehension. 1t is prop
or therefore to say by way of comment upon
to-night's official bulletin that the facts there
in stated give no uneasineSs to the attending
surgeons There is a slight increase in the
fever, but it arises from known causes and is
undoubtedly transient it its character The
reasons assigned for it are as follows: The
l.
more especially today, has taken largely in
creased quantity of solid flood. His stomach
is still sensitive and manifestS its constituencies
when IN any way overtaxed by symptoms of
disturbance. Such was the case to-day, and
this gastric trouble is thought to have been
largely instrumental in aggravatng the
febrile symptoms. Tnen the President this af-
teruoon became overwearied in the hands of a
barber. He expressed desire to have his be ard
and hair trimmed and his head rubbed and at
MS request barber was summoned The
latter spent some time in rubbing him and
although the immediate effects were pleasure
able, the results were over fatigue and in
creased feverishness. Aside, however from
the transient rise in pulse and temperature
the residents symptoms continue favorable.
DIR: Bliss, upon being asked at 10 80 tonight
whether there was anything in the patients
condition to justify uneasiness, replied mo
nothing whatever. He is doing WELL The
fever is subsiding, his pulse is below 100 again
and he is sleeping quietly He became little
overwearied this afternoon, but he will proba-
bly, be as well again tomorrow morning as he
was this" In reply to a question with regard
to the wound, DIR. Bliss aid:-"The process of
snppuration is going on satisfactorily, and
the track of the bail is slowly being cleared
by the discharge. In dressing the wound
tonight the flexible drainage tube without
exertion of the least force dropped in to a
depth Of five and a half inches showing that
the wound is clear and open to that distance.
Ii has been said by persons who have never
seen the President since his injury that the
bullet probably did not enter the great cavity
of the body at all. Our experience with the
drainage tube tonight confirms our previously
expressed judgment that the ball did enter the
abdominal cavity and pierced the liver. be-
lieve that it passed through that organ and is
lodged in the anterior wall of the abdomen
In conclusion DR.. Bliss said there was moth.
ing in the Presidents symptoms tonight to
cause anxiety or to ind cate that he is not pro-
crossing as favorably as could be expected
AT II 30 the Presidents pulse was 96. He is
sleeping quietly.
1.30 A. M.
WASHINGTON, July 19-The President is
sleeping quietly. Indications are still favor
able.
Report to the Consulting Surgeons.
The following telegram was sent by the at
tending surgeons to the consulting surgeons to.
night as 7 p. m:
Shortly after our dispatch of yesterday the
President received hypodermc injection of
Of a grain If c,,lpb So