The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-05-01


~ ssns.nsas M.ds and the ue'i~f cr"~-
ing That enc Doctors n General GRANTS
c. HAVE Made IN Incorrect Diagnosis
s.d rhHs His NHlsdy u semesnlng Les
r...<~rous ThHa C.ncer-rhs rstienrs
Condition wonderfully Improved
Sxw YoRK. April !. The sun VII
az Tomorrow. editorialiy; The I'm
provemenl In General Grants condition
steadily continues. It's now ascrrtaines
that his disease i not cancer, and there
u no reason, In hisphyslcal orSsnixaIons
why he should not recover his health en-
tircly.-
The Snn in this says what more than
one physician who has seen General
Grants throat has been saying Tor days
mast. Notwithstanding DIR. Shrady's reit-
erstisn that The General has nothing
bit cancer, this morning gen
tieman, Who Is intimate with The Grant
familg. 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 scrofula- The gen.
tleman said that there was strong proo2-
billtv that General Grant would recover
He called attention to the TACT that the
Generals most capable physicians had
not signed any bulletins indicating mat
his recovery was impossible Inere
seems to be : difference Of opinion be-
tween Drs. Shady and Dcusias and be-
tween Drs. Sands and Barker. The two
latter stand quite As high In the med
ical profession IS the nrst-named ooc
tors.
4 RKvIKw-
The following will appear in the Med
icaf Record of Saturday: During the pas'
week General Grant has suffered IRON
eonSiderabie Irritation about his throat
and the secretion OF the mucous has foi
the time being bean Increased. Oi
two or three occasions ne ha'
hsd attacks Of choking, which dc
pended IS much on the renel
spssm as upon the temporary sccumula
ton II phlegm In the lxrynx- Al no tim'
has he been in imminent danger 81 sui
focs ion. The local disease has made Nc
progress except 80 slight extent aion:
the Tree border Of the right side OF N
yelum. Sioughy oxidation In the vanl
Of pharyux il beginning 70 disin
tegrate and portions have beef
discharged, exposing char
acterisic funtgoid granular suafac'
underneath. The chances Of . mass |
its separation from the throat surfsc
temporarily obstructing the larynx. hav
tins been removed. In consequences Q
this change also the local condition
greatly improved. Glandular swelling
were not perreplbly increased althou<
the surrounding innammatory change
give rise from time 20 time TO Tel
derness on pressure. The pain
swallowing 10 not 50 great, but difficult
IN de.lutition Is sometimes qul'
marked. owing to loss Of tissue In n
velum. The granular infltrAted cond
ton Of the pzlatxl curtain still exist
and by the extension Of irritation an
its presence the neighborIng tissues ten
porarily become more or less Udematou
explaining the reason for the hemmin
cough with which the distinguished p
tient Is very much annoyed
His general condition h much In
proved. His food. which Il OF the mo
nourishing kind, u we'll assimilaied ~
his bodily vigor has Of late been but lit
impaired considering the number Of =
cent drawbacks be has experienced. II
smallesf amount Of morphia Is given co
sistent with overcoming pain, and indu
ing the needful sleep. During the pa
few DAYS but six minims Of Aagendie
solution has been injected hypodermics
" In twenty -four hours