The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-09-22

THIS 1Asr>DAY.

with chill, but tho body was bathed in hot
alcohol, the extremities chafei and wrapped in
hot flannel, and tho danger warded off. The
patient obtained considerable rest during the
lattor part OF tho night The cough was less
troublesome and the discharge Of pus from the
'a"cs smaller than on the dav previous.
The onfeeb. cd condition Of the patient
was shown in the oscillation of
the pulse, which rsngsd from lO4 to 116,
according Is the president was asleep or
awake The cottage was prophe:ically quiet
1T day break. The curtains were drawn about
the windows Of the sick chamber. Not q per-
SON was in sight save the sentrios, who passed
YEARLY around tie grounds impatiently waiting
to be relieved. The dawn portended beau
tiful day. The mist receded before the rays Of
the sun, and the SKY was cloudless. About z
O'Clock d.. Bliss came over from the cottage
and told little group Of sleepy correspond
ents that the morning bulletin would be good
ono, and that the presidents condition did not
cause any serious apprehenslons for the day.
The PHYSICIANS postponed tho niornin dress
ing of the wound rather later than usual
because there were some slight
symptoms about o'clock Of disturbance Of
the patients system. A few moments before
o " \AOSnS AO"o'OAS ga arrangements 1OT TIC
dressing were completed, and the president
was able to be turned on his side, whero the
wound could be reached, when he said:
II FEEL COLD"
At the same instant he: turned his face and
vomited Prior to this he had eaten two tea
spoonfuls Of milk porridge, but had not COM
pleted his breakfast The rigor seized him
and held full sway for over ten minutes. The
extrem;ties were blue aud cold There was An
Intermittent, spasmodic contraction and relaxa-
ton of tho muscles. One moment the frame
would appear to be drawn together as though
frightened with ropes After short time the
system would be relaxed, and with shiver
aid sighing respiration the body would re-
sumo its normal condition. The strain upon
tho oyer-taxed and Frustrated form Of the
man was intenee. The physicians even Won
1ered how be could endure it They stood
around the bed watching the attack they had
been powerless to prevent and which they
could not relieve. The moments seemed as
hours, for it looked as though every spasm
which racked the patti ent dragged him ire
sistibly toward death. The pulse of the
patient ran up to 144, or possibly higher. 1t
was 30 indistinct that the physicians
could hardly keep track oft His respiration,
it is said, was not taken, but according
to the descriptions If his difficulty in breath
ing, it must have increased to twenty eight or
thirty. Dr. Bliss came over to the hotel short
'ly after the chill ceased He sat upon the
porch beside Mrs Bliss, VIGOROUSLY smoothing
his grey side whiskers and looking at his watch
chain.
1T was very serious, chill" he said, ''yery SO.
we're. He has had two in twenty-four hours. There
is no regularity to their appearance. cannot say
when he will have another. After the chill Of this
morning believe that he Is liable to die It almost
any time"
DO you think he can live week if the chils con-
tinue?" was asked
mo. SIR" was the doctors reply. He may
live two or three days but not a
week. As said before, after
the severe rigor Of this morning We cannot tell
what any hour may bring forth. The situation is
full OF danger. There is not an atom OF hope that
can offer now. The blood is thoroughly poisoned.
His breath has that peculiar sweet smell indica-
tive of
SEPTIC CONDITION OF THE BLOOD"
Heretofore the doctor has said that the sweet
perfume Of breath was an unfailing sign of
py@mia, which the patient had not yet mani
tested, but his admission Of the existence
Of this symptom to-day is an evil
dence that acute pymmia, not septicemia, OK
isted As soon as it became known that the
president had another rigor, Attorney General
MacVeagh notified Secretaries Window,
Hunt and Kirkwood and Postmaster
General James ut the West End hotel.
A telegram was also sent to
Secretary Blaine requesting him to come to
Long Branch Immediately. Carriages filled
with ladies and gentlemen rolled up to the FL
boron and discharged their loads of anxious
inquirers. The patient had not rallied salts
factorily from the effects Of the chill. The
physicians were summoned to the bedside and
for . time IN imm ediate collapse was
feared. DR.. Agnew WAS seen for moment
He said simply this: '"This is the beginning
Of the end." After the lapse Of nearly an
hour, word was received that the president
had begun to rally. His pulse
had fallen to 1875 and the temperature,
DR.. Bliss said, "was nearly normal"
This surgeon did not speak in quite as
respondent tones as he had used earlier in the
day. The members Of the cabinet, in the
meantime, had come to the Elberon and had
assembled at Attorney General Macveashs
cottage MacVeagh then informed them of the
utterly
0O11A OnAhACIES OA HE CASE.
Gen. James walked nervously ovor to the
hotel, and DR.. Bliss met kim in the Office. 1--WE
are not entirely without hope" said the mer-
corial doctor: 'There is one chance in a
hundred that the president may recover, but
at present it seems like hoping against hone ="
The doctor did not then explain what the one
chance was. Afterwards, in a CONVEX
sation with Dr. Boynton, embe l]ished
with pathological terms, DR.. Bliss said
there was chance that the small abscesses
the lung might unite and form a continuous
flow which would relieve the patient and give
the physicians another opportunity to battle
with death on even terms. This chance
seemed to the professional listener almost too
slight-to be entertained. The doctor, sur
rounded BY corps OF correspondents, said
that tho president seemed to be temporarily
improving. He thought that when the normal
conditions were again partially restored, there
would be another chill He was emphatic in
saying that he didn't believe tho president
would die suddenly. That there was danger Of
EMBol1sM OF THE HEART,
ne admitted, but thought 1t comparatively
slight The discharge from the wound, he
said, was not improved, It being thin, dark and
stringy: There was very little flow of pus
from tie parotid gland. The cough had been
severe during the progress Of the rigor, but
since then he thought the president had not
coughed. The flow Of pus from the lungs VA,
not - free as 1t had been. The area of dull
ness =. on the. right lung seemed
somewhat extended. i Without admitting
that there was = now pus cavity,
forming on the lungs, tho doctor made state
ments which seemed to indicate that such was
the immediate cause Of tho rigor: Later, the
rigor has ended. This morning the president
called for hand glass which lay upon the
dresser in his room and looked earnestly at
himself DR.. Bliss had described him early in
the day as looking like = shadow, with sunken
eyes, the skin drawn tightly over the cheek
bones and shriveled features. II can't under
stand. doctor, how it is am 80 weak whom l
look 80 we'll" said the president as he dropped
the glass upon the bed. s:''.~ 2.~ -,
The tones Of his voice were weak" said tho doc
tor. but he seemed full Of courage and there was
no indication of mental weakness in his msnner
His mind has not boon clear all tho day. At times
he has wandered considerably, but when he spoke
OF himself be was in possession OF all his faculties,