Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-11
The PROSTATE President.

Wednesday.-The day has passed
without unfavorable symptoms, and has
been filled with bright hopes. The
President awoke refreshed and hungry,
wishing that he might have something
of more substantial character for food
than he had been allowed up to this
time. The physicians acceded to his
request and gave him with other food
the whites of eggs. The physicians are
in state of great anxiety fearing that,
when the abscess is formed around the
bullet. the poisoned matter may be alb
sorbed into the system, producing fatal
results by blood poisoning This is the
imminent danger to be met, and every
precautlon possible will be taken to
meet it.
There are still great many theories
in regard to the nature of the wound,
the location of the bullet, and the dan
gers yet to be overcome.
Ihursday.-While the bulletins have
all been favorable, it can hardly be said
that the president has spent quite so
comfortable day as yesterday. The
physicians think that the great heat had
something to do with the increase of the
pulse and temperature at noon. That
increase kept up all the afternoon, and
in the evening at 9 the pulse was LOG
and the temperature over 100, but DIR.
Bliss thought that the cooling effects of
the thunder shower and the rest of sleep
ing would bring the pulse down by mid
night. 1t was admitted to-day, howev-
er, that symptoms Of jaundice have been
discovered, and it was regarded as
strange that the fact was not made
known to Drs. Hamilton and Agnew un-
til this noon. DR.. Hamilton said yes
terday that the absence of this symptom
justified the inference that the liver had
y
not been injured. This he seems to re-
gard as most favorable. Yet it seems
that the yellow discoloration of the skin
was detected at least twenty-four hours
ago. DR.. Reyburn was the first to ad-
NIT it. His attention was called to DR..
Hamilton's statement, and he replied
that, unfortunately, symptoms of jaun-
dice had been detected. Some of the
physicians say, however, that this symp-
tom is very slight, and it has not In
, creased during the day, and add that it
is not regarded as serious. DR., Reyburn
however, says that he does not know how
serious the symptoms may prove to be,
while DR.. Barnes will not speak of it at
all. 1t is admitted, however, that on
Friday evening, if not before, the presi-
dent will probably enter another very
critical period, and it is thought not un'
likely that the continued high state Of
his pulse and temperature is but the be-
ginning of that crisis.
Friday.-7:30 a. m. After the
shock occasioned by the severe thunder
, storm last night, the President rested
comfortably. At this hour one of the
physicians, who had just left the sid,
, room, says his favorable conditions con
tinue. Pulse, 90; respiration, %. DR.
. Bliss says the prospects are more favor
able this morning than they at any time
have been. This morning healthl,
pus has formed on the wound. and tn
y medical indications are favorable.
. IL a. m. At this hour the Presiden
i. is resting quietly and has strength
! enough to fan himself. He has takel
: some Cruel. The matter, or "laudabl
" pus," as the physicians call it which
= forming. is at the orifce of the wound
=. 1t IS not the matter that will form il
/ the cavity of the wound from whic
blood poison is to be feared. There /
. growing confidence everywhere in tn
Presidents recovery.
l p m. The Presidents condition
Il continues so favorable that no furthe
r official bulletin will be issued until 8:3
p p. m. There has been slight increas
W in pulse owing to the heat. There
70 no increase in the jaundice symptoms
h They are rather receding than progress
is ing.
y, Saturday: A special dispatch to tn
" Boston Journal to-day says: The Pres
rs dent is passing comfortably and withou
N disturbing symptoms through one of tn
Of days which the physicians and those az
N quainted with his wound regard as
70 critical period. Both Gen. Swain an
in Col. Corbin said last night that the
g looked forward to the next two or thre
ID days with great anxiety. He is M
II yet out of danger by any meuns, but
r none of the symptoms to be feared, an
in more particularly blood poisoning. max
their appearance before Monday. the
will feel that the worst is over. Aft
lie the lapse of a week he is still scarcel
a. able to move his limbs, is forbidden
q speak except so far as it os Imperative
is necessary, is constant sufferer fro