Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-09-18
THE CABINET SHOCKED.


ed themselves greatly shocked by the bad news.
They were aware of the low state of the Pres-
dent, but had not anticipated so sudden change
for the worse. Soon after the members arrived
and while they were at dinner the Attorney Gen.
erai drove up to the hotel gave them history of
the days of their absence. He told them that
whlle the symptoms of to-day were not indicative
OF certain and speedy dissolution, they were of a
nature to make the presence of the full Cabinet
desirable.
DR.. BLISS ON THE PRESIDENTS LOW TEMPERA-
TURE.
According to night dispatch from Elberon,
DR.. Bliss was asked:
"What significance is to be attached to the
fact that the temperature is about half q de-
gree below normal tonight"
DR.. Bliss here made a statement which, in
view of what all the surgeons have hitherto
said in fixing the normal standard of tempera-
ture at 9S.4 or 985 must be deemed extra
ordinary. He said: "With regard to that, the
belief Of many very able psychologists is that
normal for temperature In perfectly healthy
man will ordinarily represent SO, and from that
to 9S6 is considered normal / think his tenn
perature absolutely normal. was little sur
prised that it was so low, but not alarmed about
it, as it was about normal. 1t is not an indica-
cation of poorness of blood. There was abso-
lutely no febrile disturbance at all at the even
ing bulletin; but 1 should not want the tempera-
ture to go below that"
Dr. ASneW ldIkSs
1.-THE SITUATION MUST BE GLOOMIER THAN now
WHEN WE HAVE NO HOPE"
The New York Herald correspondent at Elbe-
ron telegraphed last night as follows: Of all
the number about that sick bed there is not one
to give an encouraging word in reply. All they
answer is:-"We hope for the best. There is vet
room for hope-there is yet chance, but the
condition of the President was never so grave
before" Even those whose friendship with the
President takes on itself the nature of a love
that could not bear to hear one word spoken
that told of danger are forced to admit to-day
that the spark of hope is dim in their hearts,
and the worst that could be feared seems certain
to become the inevitable. DR.. Agnew, with that
stern conservatism which sits with such splen-
did dignity upon him, declines to speak of the
future but says simply:
The condition of the President is most
serious There is more gravity in it than there
has ever been before"
"Will he die?" ask.
His condition" replies the doctor, ''is most
serious "
"DO you think he can live?'
1.-The situation is so grave that have few
words OF encouragement to speak.
DO you have hOpe? | asked again:
1.-THE situation must be gloomier Than now
when we have no hope" was the reply. and
leaving the impression on the mind of his listen
ers that he has little or none, he bows to them
and crosses the lawn to the cottage where the
PRESIDENT waits the summons of death or that
change that will bear him from danger.
A Bare Chance.
WHAT DIR. BOYNTON SAID AFTER THE RIGOR YES
TERDAY.
The New York Herald correspondent tele-
graphed last night:-For an hour or 80 none of
the doctors made their appearance. Finally
DIR. BOyntOn, looking calm and sef-possessed
the Englisl<eut of his clothes and the way he
wears his beard suggesting very much the Eng
lish tourist strolled across the lawn.
"ies. the rigor is over" he said ''There is
serious"
More dangerous than ever before?" ask a
half dozen voices, and the Doctor, with that
calm deberatiOn which never fails him, said:
-, :. Yes, more dangerous than ever before. They
will come and gO'
''What is the cause. doctor?" asked.
"The trouble in the lungs and the poisoned
condition of the blood. He has pyamia,''
"And it is incurable?'
"People have recovered
"Will the President?'
u do not want to say anything about that
He has chance-a bare chance. He NAV not
die; he may live long time. 1 have not given
up hope"
"What are the lungs doing?"
Getting worse. think"
'And the WOund!'
Just about the same"
" Are there any further complications"
"None at ALL
NOT ACUTE PYEMIA.
The Tribune correspondent at Elberon tele-
ographed late last night as follows: at was cur
rently reported that the surgeons agreed to-day
that the President is suffering from acute
pyRmia. This is not correct. Even Dr. Bovn-
ton, who has held to the belief that it is bad
case of blood poisoning, says decidedly to-day
that he does not think it is acute pyamia Both
he and Attorney General MacVeagh were among
those who did not give way to-day in any de-
gree to the panic SO general among outsiders
THE BEEF BLOOD.
The new treatment mentioned by the physi-
clans is the administration of defibrinated beef
blood by enemata. The blood is procured fresh
every morning from a New York abattOr and
whipped until it is entirely freed from it's fibrine
or stringy parts. This process also prevents the
danger of its becoming clOtted