The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1884-01-03
A TALK WITH DIR BLISS.
THE EFFORTS TO svAE aARFIELD's
LIFR.

suoss lnniiiar uguTe6 IN nsnlngtOt
life. He has entirely recovered hi.
health, which was 30 nearly broken
down by the trial Of the eighty days
stretch at Garlield's bedside. 1t i,
only this year that he has fully re-
covered. Barnes aud Woodward
Ind their deaths FASTENED by their
labors attendant upou this celebrat.
ed case. Dr.. Bliss has now one o
the finest practices 10 Washington
He may be seen every day flying
about town 10 close coupe, drawn
by q pair Of handsome bay horses
with one OF the best coacbmen in the
city on the box. This driver has
been with DIR. Bliss for years. He
has, perhaps, unconsciously:: drifted
into making himself up to resemble
the doctor. lie has tho same cast
iron gravity, the same shaped side
whiskers, and his. complexion is
lighter even than the Spanish-com-
plexion faced doctor.
DR.. Bliss has retured from q trip
to Cleveland, whore he went to at
T4end the golden wedding of bis Sis
ter. While there Mrs. Ga,lie in
vited him sand Mrs. Bliss to her
house to spend the afternoon. There
were so many interruptions in the
way Of callers that Mrs. Gai field de-
sired DR.. Bliss to call upon her the
next morning, so that they might
have free aud uninterrupted talk.
In that conversation tho two went
over their mutual experience in the
terrible summer of the assassination.
Mrs Garfield in this conversat. o.
expressed renewed appreciation of
Dr. Blisss service. Few people can
really understand the. terrific strain
to which DR.. Bliss was subjected
In his interviews he was the mere
spokesman Of the counsel Of physi-
clans, who sustained him through
out. The torrents OF criticism and
even threats poured out upon the
men who bad tho President in
charge were enough to unse,tle the
mind of a weak mar. l asked DR..
Bliss how he found Mrs. Garfield
"She was looking very happy and
contented. She has rounded out
since leaving Washington. She is
beautifully situated, and has every
thing about her to make her com.
Portable. She is the center of u
great deal OF attraction"
During their morning talk the
doctor says her eyes often filed with
tears, showing that che had not :en.
tirely forgotten but her life in the
main is more pleasant than the av-
erage mortal has n right to expect.
l asked DR.. Bliss this question
last night:
I'm the light of the information
given You in the post-mortem, do
you think Garfeld's life could have
been saved ?"
Most decidedly no. The med
ical profession is unanimous upon
this subject now. Garfield received
three injnIies. either one Of which |
woold have made bis death absolute.
iy certain. The shattering of the
vertebr@ was one, the rupturing of
the spleuetic artery was the second
and carrying of the pieces Of the
pieces of the deuuded bone from the
ribs into the system was
the third"
DIR, Bliss said that the rupturiug
Of the artery above named would
have caused death upon the day the
president was shot fit had not been
Tor bis sinking SO lo.'. During this
feeble condition the blood flowing
rom the served artery formed u
'lot, which stopped up, for time
The loss from that direction. II he
had not been injured in any other
way but this he might have appar-
sptly recovered up 10 certain
point. But the moment he should
some to make. q sudden movement
The .clot would fall away and death
would have resulted. just as it did,
rom tue falling away of ,ihe clot.
pe. Bliss says that tho great Lon
lon surgeon. Mckenzie, who re-
'ently lectured in New York 10 the
Bellevue hospital upon gunshol
Soonds, supported the theory of the
'hysiciaus in charge of the presi-
leot. Dr. Mckenzie, in a word, q
aid that modern surgery did no,
pprove OF the probe Probing Of
en- resulted in moro injury than i
,anh6t fa /.