New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-27
BULLETINS FROM THE SICK ROOM.

OFFICIAL AND UNOFF CIAL STATEMENTS REsPIsC ~
ING TIIE PRESIDENTS CONDITION FROM HOUR
TO HOUR
-, WAsn!!NGToN. July 80 a. m;--Dr. Bliss says
the President passed q comfortable night, resting
wen sleeping at intervals up to 3 a. m. About =
soon passe away and afterward the President OH
tained more rest and sleep. This morning, at 2
O'Clock, he is resting quietly with his pulse at 9S,
and temperature apparently about normal.
lOnicall-S:3O q. m.--Tue President was some
what res less during the night and the fever which
had subsidized after last hu etin again about
midnight and continued till 3 O'clock, after which
it again snbsidcd. He is now about as well yes
tuIe. 9S4 respiration, Is. ID. w. BLISS.
J. J. WOODWARD.
il. REYBURN.
11:1O a. m.-The President at this hour is resting
comfortably, aud the surgeons express themselves
as satisfied with his present condition. runor has
been circulated that the President had another chill
this morning Those who are thoroughly ac-
quanted with The facts, however deny the story
and say that the patient has had no chills since
those which occurred reyious 10 the incisioD. DIR.
Agnew has been here all the morning. One of the
consulting surgeons will be in attendance daily for
the present Or. }Iamton is expected to return to-
to Philadelphia.
12 m.-Colonel Rockwell who Just came from the
Presidents chamber says the patient is resting
very comfortably nni he considers that he doing
well could reasonably be expected. In response
to question whether there had been would he
any fnrther operations performed ON the President
ton, and Judging from present indications we do
not anticipate that any more will bc necessary"
Continuing. the Colonel said that at the morning
dressing of the wound the surgeons took several
small pieces of bone from the wound, which were
| supposed to be from the fractured rib.
2:2O p. m.-The reports which have been tcle-
nTapnpd hence "a
alton performed this forenoon for the purposn of
removing part of the Presidents fractured rib are
without foundation. The wound has not been
touched since the morning dressing, and the only
operation performed then was the pulling ont by
Dr. Bliss with his finger of two three spcula of
splintered bone which clogged the passage and
irnpeded the ontiiow OF pus. The surgoons d nat
in the Presidents condition this afterno6n On the
contrary, they say that he has had fairly comfort
able day that the discharge from the wound this
morning, although not large, was not scauty as
To indicate any new complication that the patient
at ms hour IL free from fever and Is resting quietly,
and that bis general condition ia at least good
IL was yesterday.
4p.m.-The President has had IA comfortable day.
aud IN the opinion of the surgeons Is better now
than he was at this time yesterday. His tcnpcra-
ture during the greater part of the afternoon has
been normal his pulse not high and his general
dition good. There has been no recurrence up to
this hour of the afternoon fever.
tOficial-7 p. m.--The President has done well
during the day. At the dressing of his wound after
the morning bulletin issued displaced spicu-
lum of the broken rib about half an inch long was
removed, the track OF the wound at this point was
dilated and large drainage tube inserted for the
purpose of facilitating the discharge OF pus. Since
that time he has had several quiet maps has taken
more nourishnent than any OF the last five days
without gastric irritation, and when the wound was
dressed this evening the discharge of healthy pus
was satisfactorily abundant. At noon his pulse was
106; temperature, 0S.4 respiration, TO- At p IN.
pulse, lO4 temperature, 1907 respiration, %.
u. HAYES AGNEw.
d. w. BLISS.
j. X. BARNES.
j. WOODWARD.
ROBERT REYBURN.