The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-04-25
GOOD NEWS.


Tho Statement Made and the Belief Grow.
ing That the Doctors I'm General Grants
Case Have Made an Incorrect Diagnosis,
and That His MaIady Is Something Less
dangerous Than Cancer-The Patients
Condition wonderfully Improved.
New YORK, April II The Sun will
say tomorrow, edtorially; "The i'm
provement in General Grants condition
steadily continues. 1t is now ascertained
= that his disease is not cancer, and there
is no reason, in his physical organization,
why he should not recover his health en-
tirely."
The Sun in this says what more than
one physician who has seen General
Grants throat has been saying for days
past. Notwithstanding DR.. Shrady's reit-
Grafton that the General has nothing
but cancer, this morning a gen.
tleman, who is intimate with the Grant
family, declared that an announcement
would soon be made that would surprise
the public. He said that General Grant
was not suffering from cancer, but from
disease affecting the blood and arising
from something like scroiula. The gen.
tleman said that there was strong proba'
bility that General Grant would recover.
He called attention to the fact that the
Generals most capable physicians had
not signed any bulletins Indicating that
fp,nnocihla
seems to be a difference of opinion be-
tween Drs. Shrady and Douglas and be-
tween Drs. Sands and Barker. The two
latter stand quite as high in the med
ical profession as the frst-named doc
tors.
REVIEW.
The following will appear in the Med
zeal Record of Saturday: During the past
week General Grant has suffered from
considerable irritation about his throat,
and the secretion of the mucous has for
the time being been increased. On
two or three occasions he has
had attacks of choking, which de-
pended as much on the reflex
spasm as upon the temporary accumula-
ton of phlegm in the larynx. At no time
has he been in imminent danger OF SUI
location. The local disease has made no
progress except to slight extent along
the Tree border of the right side of the
velum. Sloughy emulation in the vault
of pharynx is beginning to disin
tegrate and portions have been
discharged, exposing char
acterisic funtgoid granular suaface
underneath. The chances of a mass in
its separation from the throat surface
temporarily obstructlng the larynX, have
thus been removed. In consequence Of
this change also the local condition is
greatly improved. Glandular swellings
were not perceptlbly increased although
the surrounding infammatory changes
give rise from time to time to ten.
derness on pressure. The Ipain in
swallowing is not SO great, but difficulty
IN deglutition is sometimes quite
marked, owing to loss of tissue in the
velum. The granular infiltrated condi-
ton of the palatal curtain still exists,
and by the extension of irritation and
its presence the ncighboring tissues tenn
porarily become more or less 9dematous,
explaining the reason for the hemming
cough with which the distinguished pa.
tlent is very much annoyed.
ellis general condition is much inn
proved. His food, which is of the most
nourishng kind, is well assimilated and
his bodily vigor has of late been but little
impaired considering the number of re-
cent drawbacks he has experienced. The
smallest amount of morphia is given con-
sistent with overcoming pain, and induc-
ing the needful sleep. During the past
few days but six minims of Magendie's
solution has been injected hypodermical-
ly In tWenty-four hours.