Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-08-08
The White House journal of the Day.

WASHINGTON, Aug. g.. The Presidents
condition this morning was in every re-
spect as satisfactory and encouraging as
could be wished. BE slept the greater por-
ton of last night. No morphine was adj
ministered to him last night, and there is
no more of that restlessnesS noted that
showed itself the first night of abstainlng
from morphine He slept naturally and
peacefully. The dressing of the wound
this morning showed that it was
in a very healthy condition.
The discharge was healthy, though
as was the case Yesterday, not as full as 1t
has been. Before breakfast this morning
he had dish of strawberries placed be-
fore him They were splendid specimen
of the fruit, which had been sent to the
White house from New York. He ate
nine or ten of the berries. After this fol-
lowed breakfast. Thesbill of fare was
more extensive than usual. 1t consisted
of beefsteak, potatoes, tea and toast.
The noon examination showed
a little higher pulse than has recently
been usual. The warmth of the day had
much to do with the rise. His pulse was
100, temperature and respiration normal.
He was pronounced ito Ebe doing very
well indeed by his physicians. At l p.
m .she continued to do well. He said to
the surgeons this morning that he felt
better than at any time since his injury.
This afternoon he slept great deal; at
O'Clock his pulse had gone down little
from the 100 beats at noon and his tenn
perature and respiration continued nor
NAL. He was resting very nicely and
nothing had occurred to break his
steady progress. He was very much bet
ter to- ay than week ago. DIR. Hamil-
ton said this afternoon he was doing ad-
mirably. He is sitting up higher in bed
than he has been allowed to heretofore,
said DR.. Hamilton, and he says himself
he feels much better to- day than at any
time since he was shot The usual eve
mig rise of fever came this evening about
the same hour as yesterday, but the fever
was higher than heretofore. The tenn
perature went up to 101.8, the pulse to 1872
and respiration TO 10. There has
been little higher rise of
fever for several evenings, and tonight
this caused some feeling of uneasiness,
but at the White house there was no such
feeling. DR.. Reyburn said that the sur
geons felt no apprehension because of
the fever; that the excessive hot weather
contributed to it. He said that while the
temperature was up some his skin was
not dry or hot and the pulse was not very
high, and that the fever was not alarm
ing at all. He said the wound was
discharging very well, the pus beng
healthy, and that if there were any other
ungovernable symptoms with the in
crease of fever the doctors would feel I'M
easy, but there was an entire absence of
any such symptoms. He was resting well
without morphine-none had been ad-
Ininistered for several days. DR.. Reyburn
said later in the evening the fever had
receded very materially; that it went
down early, and his skin before 10
O'Clock felt moist and comfortable.
At IL o'clock the White house was
closed. The President was sleeping and
everything looked promising. Dr. Rey-
burn said emphatically that the President
was not troubled with malaria.
Col. Rockwell, superintendent of public
buildings and grounds, has notified Health
Officer Townsend not to take any steps
towards inspecting the drainage of the
Executive mansion until the President is
moved away.