Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1881-08-22

rnE PaEaIDES,'s woUsD.
When the President was nrst wounoeo
By the vould.bs- assassin Gis'ssu' MS
battalion Of physicians and surgeons
carefully avoided any elaborate pro0iss
a, ths wound In order to And out the
airso,ion the bullet had taken. on the
,round ,hs, !. was best not to irritsts or
s~,.r.y.t. the wound any more than
sould we'll BE- helped. Outside Physi'
alan. and surgeons. fully - competent
and p.rhsps more 20. declare that then
v.s the time to probe, right after the
ar,, shock. when the patient was as bis
beet, and most able to stand the iiii'
,x,rs irritation Of the probe. The parts
YER. arusr. the track Of the ball better
d.ausd. and psrhsps Il might have Deem
found directly and ss'rsa'sd. to the oov''
alton Of oil further diaaeuliy.
His physicians we're afraid to disturb
Ii. wound then lee, they should unduly
shock hi. sys,.m. yet only last Saturday.
ssv,n weeks alter he vas wounded. and
xh.n Ii. man was reduced almost to .
d,ioa condition. they deliberately pro-
e..dsd TO run . long h-a'bls rubber
probe into the wound very much farther
than they he'd ever penetrated before.
This dsx,bls rubber osthstsr. or tube.
which they had been usins to draw Oh
the pus. they showed In By way Of ex-
pertinent, and |, psostrstsd much farther
than they had eve imagined that 1t
could. Bot Saturday evenings tsls-
grams tell the story. a follows:
Dr.. Boyuton. who came out OF the
Pr, sid.pt's room at $50 this afternoon.
said to an Associated Prsss reporter:
There 10 no truth In the report that the
object Of Introducing Q tube Into the
wound to such Q d-pth was for the pur.
pose Of reschipg supposed pos seeumu
isiions. While washing out the wound
Yesterday the surgeons found that there
vas no longer any resistance to the
ORE Of the tube. and they therefore
let Il 20 10 90 Tar 80 IL would and TO the
depth Of eleven inches. and aftsrvard
10 twelve inches. Healthy pus 10 never
absorbed, and cannot BE- ABSORBED. con.
stqusntly there eau be no foundation TO
Ii. report that the depth Of the wound
would indicate that pus had been alb
sorbsd. The Introduction Of . tubs to
% great . d-pth gives no further evil
dsnes Of The location OF the ball. The
tub, was Q flexible rubber caihster. used
in washing out the wound. and Ne could
tell In Q general way the direction which
u took through the body. That dirso-
ton vas forward and1ownwsrd toward
Q point 10 the anterior wall Of the alb
domsu. where the ball has always been
supposed to be-"
Nothing new vas sscsrtained. The
surgeons think II possible that the ball
has moved downward since Il drst lodged
In the abdominal wall. bot this 10 not
certain. The surgeons regard this open
ing mp Of the wound % favorable. I'll
better to have the wound open through.
out than closed or DISTRACTED In ths
middle. II 10 now be gotten at and
cleaned thoroughly. In fact, this re-
BENT exploration shows NO u~nfavorabis
symptoms. but the contrary.
BY the introduction Of . rubber caths-
Ter l2H inehss into the Prssident's
wound nothing Q with regard to the
location OF the ball was learned. DR..
Bliss said that from the passage OF the
saihetsr TO this depth the tube was 20
soi, that one could only juds. sppro1i-
mat. ~ The direction WATCH it has taken.
Il passed downward and forward toward
III. point In the interior wall Of the
abdomen where ,t had always been sup
possd 10 be, and that wss the most
which could DO affirmed. Dr.. Hamilton
thought that the end Of the tube lacked
about three inches Of reaching the ball
and the iu,.rvepipg space had healed.
In his lpr. Biiss) opinion. however. tbs
dis.spes from the end Of the tube to the
ball was not 90 great.
Il will b noticed that twelve and q
half ipehss Of this osthstsr. used a. q
flexible probe. disappeared within the
body Of the Prssid,n |. Jet II demon.
strs,.d ''nothiDg new with regard to the
location Of the ball." In fact. Dr.. Bliss
said the, ''from the passage Of the esths-
Ter TO this depth. the tubs was 70 soft
ths, one eoald only judss approximately
The direction IL had taken" /, seemed.
However. to have passed "downvsrd
and forward toward the interior wall oil
the abdomen. where the ball has always
been supposed TO Be-. and that was The
mos, tbs, could BE- smrmsd." A to the
se,usl ussrnsss Of it, spproseh to the
ball, Doctors Hamilton aud Bliss very
evidently made merely ~spproxims,s
susssss at II. Moreover. any good sur
econ Who understands the Introduction
Of the d.xibls rubber or quits. psrchs
eath.ter Knows how ever IN expert
could b. derived By II In suoh . case. Il
may have gone In Q totally oiusrens
direction from What they suppose. and
Ah Vas u timber and soft - repre-
ssptsd. II may have doubled over at the
slightest obstacle and not psnstrstsd In
reality over four or Ave inches, the rest
merely bending or eoilins itself away. a.
10 vsrs. insids.
A. to the electric apparatus which
vas tried . couple Of weeks ago. and
which located the ball near the right
groin. an inch and Q half beneath the
surface. the surgeons themselves say
they place very little confidence In Il;
st any rate. not enough to venture .
surgical operation directed By Il to To-
move the bullet. II there was . positive
ssrtainty that the bullet was located a.
hsaeribed. the operation TO rsmoys "A