The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-07-07
THE AssAssINATION ATTACK.
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teau's RecOrd-IIis Talk
A Washington special Of Sunday says;
To-day Surgeon. General Barnes Is sti
affected by the calamity. His voice faltere'
when he spoke Of President Garded's con
dition. He attended Lincoln immediasel,
after no received his wound and was ais
called to Secretary Stewards bedside. Th
sudden summons yesterday to attend an
other president, whom no regarded will
sincere affection, was severe shock although
he showed no excitement while he PERFORMED
his professional duties. He said to you
correspondent: From my experience during
the war have abundant proof that injuries
of the liver, either by stab or gunshot, are
NOT NECESSARILY FATAL,
although dangerous Authors who usually
forbid exploration of wounds of the abdomen.
sanction an extraordinary latitude in incis.
ions for the purpose OF removing foreign
bodie, from tho liver. IL ia practicrd exten,
sively by the French and German physicians,
having been recommended by La Drau and
Nus.baum. who are sustained by Percy. l
remember that about 81 cases of recovery
from shot wounds OF the liver during the
war came under my observation and about
one.haf of these were further complicated
by LESSONS of other organs, At Hat hers
Run boy 10 years old WAS shot 10 tbs back,
the ball passing through tho liver and emerg.
ing from the abdomen. He recovered in less
than month. | looked 10 the pension list
TO see il he In applied for pension but his
namo is not on the list. SO it may be pre-.
sumed that he recovered fully
ANOTHER CASE.
which was thought important enough to be
reported in tho current medical Journals,
was that of Private Gilbert Smith. There,
beyond doubt, the LESSONS were most So
we're; yet when Smith presented himself to
the pension examiner faw years ago he was
reported in good health
Another Smith, a corporal, wounded at
Fredericksburg, furnishes an additional un.
doubted instance Of recovery from wound
In the liver.
"Rscoysries from wounds in the liver can
not, however, be looked forward to with Ger
tainty; yet beside tho cases which came
under observation during tho war know Of
others. Ia July, 1868, u policeman WAS shot
through the liver; but four months of care
full treatment pulled him through. In two
cases which occurr01 AZ Suffolk battle in
1868, the ball lodged in the liver and WAS
extracted, the patient subsequently, recover
log. There are also several cases in which
the ball lodged in the liver and has remained
there, and these cases are Interesting in case
it should be found impossible to extract the
ball from President Gartield's wound. One
OF the wounded mon was also from Ohio. In
his case the ball entered several inches above
and slightly to thu right of tho navel
AMONG THE STRIKING CASES
CT the ball remaining lodged in the liver
WAS that OF Sergeant Snively, of tho Now
York cavalry, who was wounded at Piedmont.
Virginia, in 1864. The ball lodged in the
right lobe OF the liver. True, IL took a year.
OF treatment before no could be discharged
from the hospital, but his recovery was quite
complete.
i, Another soldi,r was shot in the liver, the
Dali passing through the liver and remsining
IN the tissues. twas from large revolver.
about the sizo as that used by Guittesu.
There was no suppuration, vomiting, disr
rhoea or fever, and the man recovered.
A solder, twenty one years old, was
wounded ut Charlottesville, both in the
liver aad lung. but no recovered and ia az
strong as ever.
ANOTHER CURIOUS RECOVERY
from what Is perhaps moro difficult to treat
Shan shot wound in the liver was the lodp,
Ing In the liver of a large bone splint, which
was shattered by u bullet, in the case of
John Green, Of Pennsylvania. Not only
the right lobe of the liver, hut large branch
OF the hepa!ic duct WAS perforated.
All these cases were, from certain point
o. view, more hopeless than Presiden, Gar,
held's. They occurred in tho battle HsId
where they could not receive Immediate
a"ehuon, whereas physicians were GA the |
Spot tewmomeats after the president was
injured. Moreover tho attendance here can
Dc more regular, and the appliances ara /
nearer at hand than they were in suyd
cases, and every change Ia his condition 18Th
% noticed at once. Then, too. Ps,r can
slalseld was in ey9''tspt hesllh<N~ resident
datlAla1 affiA4 szaxeei,ssl. -uy and his
constitution WAS msgnifc3iMs lie is strug-
Cling CALAMITY and will continue,I believe,
TO fgh. msnlully for his life.
TnE TREATMENT.
I'VE treat him internally with milk andr |
limewa,er, and also give him by podermic
injections of morphine to allay nervousness. |
To tho wound we apply cold oompress,s to
prevent Inflammation from setting in.
WOUND OF A SIMILAR NATURE.
Mai Burt, U. 5. A., telegraphs General
Swain At the executive mansion as follows:
II recall Csp.. Drury's wound through
the liver, received at Iordon's mills before
Chickamauga, He took the chance and il
here in good health, Capt, Drury was the
originator OF tho phrase, Il will tako that
chance and 1t WAS his words which occurred
to General Garfield in his talk with his
physician, DR.. Bliss, yaslerd,y. General
Garfield WAS familiar win tho circumstances
OF Msjor ID ury's wound, which was in
many respects counterpart of his own.
Drury was shot from In front, tho bullet
perforsting tho liver AMI also the lungs. A
considerable portion of tho liver was de-
stroyed, and after an illness of some weeks
he recovered, and Is to-day ss robust and
hale as anybody. The ball was eventually
cut out OF his body"
GUIrTEAu's RECORD.
when Chas. j. Guitteau first came to this
city he brought letter to the Calvary Bsp
tist church In Twenty third street from the
jersey City Baptist church and was sd-
mis!ed to membership, but his conduct WAS
SUCH as to very soon arouse against him not
only personal dislike, but a conviction of
his inslncerity and dishonesty and his desire
TO profit .pecuniarily by his relation with the
church, his ill'treatment of his wife and his
wild talk aud acts caused him 10 be disci-
pinned and expelled from church member
chip 10 1872. Tho pastor of the church. tho