The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-11
FROM THE sICK-RooM.
Reports from the Physicians in Attendance
and Other Callers.

and Other Callers Y
New York, April 1O--Dr Douglas this morn
ing issued the following bulletin. General
Grants condition remains substantially the same.
Pulse 62, and regular; temperature 80; respira
ton, 1s. He slept we'll during the night, but
not profoundly He awoke clear in mind, and
has taken his nourishment as VISUAL"
Captain Tuthil of the Seventh Regiment,
War Veterans, called on General Grant, and pre-
sented resolutions of sympathy. They had post
poned their dinner celebrating the Appomattox
surrender, which was to have taken place last
night.
senor Romero and Captain Bedford PIN, of
the Royal Navy, called, and the latter left 18TH
mian papers for the General Senior Romero
said he saw no change, except for the better, in
the Generals condition.
Senator Chaffee and DR.. Newman called.
1t is said the General glanced at the papers to-
day, and read the war news headings.
Gen. Thomas Kilby Smith, of Philadelphia,
called, as did also Commodore and Mrs Garri-
son.
Dr. Douglas left the patient at IL A. NJ, and
again the General was without medical attend
ance.
General Dent, the brother-in-law of General
Grant, is reported as saying that the Grant fam;
lily have become reconcied to the fact that the
General cannot recover. Before leaving the
sick-room the attending physicians permitted
General Dent to see General Grants throat by
means of reflector. He says the cancer has
made greater progress than anyone who has not
seen it can imagine. An artery in the throat
must certainly give way soon, and then there is
nothing to prevent the General dying. Not
withstanding all his suffering General Grant is
perfectly resigned to his fate and is prepared to
die. Said General Dent: HE is as calm and
self-possessed to-day as he was at the battle OF
the Wilderness."a
At $50 P. NJ. DR.. Douglas issued the following
bulletins General Grant has had comforta-
BILE day. He has rested on the bed longer than
for many days. and slept well and naturally.
His pulse, temperature and respiration are az
previously reported"
Senior Romero called at the residence of Gen
Grant between and o'clock. He said, wher
leaving the house, that he had conversed with
General Grant. At times he seemed anxious
about the financial future of his family, accord
ing to Senior Romero, and he intimated that the
depreciation of Toledo and Wabash stock. in
which the trust fund was invested, had been q
source of anxiety to General Grant.
Rev. Dr. Newman left General Grants house
at 1890. He said the condition of the General
is more favorable now than at any time since
the hemorrhage, and he will have an easy night.
At midnight Dr. Shrady issued the following
bulletin; General Grant has been quiet dur
ing the evening. He has dozed most of the
~, - ;,o1 @n fnlJ ;ot
natural sleep. Thus far the administration OF
the anodyne has not been necessary, as the
patient suffers no pain. The pulse is sixty and
the temperature normal. Ho has taken the
usual amount of nourishment"
Probabilities as to the Death of the General.
New York Special.
There has been so much unsatisfactory specu-
lation about the danger of an immediate fatal
termination of General Grants disease that the
correspondent to-day gained an audience with a
gentleman who knows as much about the med-
cal and other aspects of the case as any one
He allowed himself to be interviewed on the con-
dition that his name would not be published. 1t
is sufficient, therefore, to say that the gentle
man has been regular visitor at the Grant
house, and has seen the sick man every day for
q month. He said:
sIt will surprise General Grants physicians
very much if he dies within week The chances
are that he will live two weeks longer would |,
not give much odds that he will not live until
May OF course, some unforeseen accident such
as a sudden faintness of the heart, may occur at
any moment and upset my prophecy. but with
that possible exception think you will find it
true one."
''What is to be feared most9' was asked.
First of all, blood poisoning The trouble
Tuesday morning was caused by the Judgements
in the rear of the larynx suddenly becoming
loose and leaving the raw sores uncovered.
Thus, at the first friction, they began to bleed.
In their present exposed condition, these tissues
may absorb some of the poisonous matter from
the cancer, and thus it will enter the blood.
The physicians, l understand, are now directing
their efforts to warding off this danger and they
will probably succeed in doing so for couple Of
weeks at least. When you see General Grants
temperature going. up, and his pulse becoming
irregular, then look out for danger That will
mean that the poison has reached his blood.
The second cause of the alarm is from
exhaustion; a bad spell from Sleep
lessress, or somo similar cause, may