The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-03-01
A SUSPICIOUS STORY.
GEN. GRANT MAY BE VERY SICK,
In Fact Fred. and His Doctors Say He is
But 1t Looks Like "Retire-
ment' Strategy on the Con-
gressional Sympathies.

NEW YoRK, Feb. 2S.-In regard to
Gen. Grants health, Col. Fred Grant
said to a Post reporter this afternoon:
"My father is a very sick man. There
is no use OF any longer denying the fact.
We have made every effort to keep the
true facts from the public, because we
know that as soon as it should become
known that he was dangerously i'll,
there would be hundreds of letters
coming in with every mail, and this
would only excite him and make cure
less hopeful. Father has had but little
rest the past few nights. He was no
and about his room for little while
yesterday, and we hope TO get him up
constant pain In his ear and head.
! For any facts concerning the nature
his disease, | refer you to. his doctor,
who are attending him. Thew are For
dice Parker, DR.. }. Douglass and A.
b. Sands, of this city, and +. M. Men
ker, of Philadelphia.
DR.. Douglass said: am in no wise
responsible FOR the rose-colored report
that appeared In the medical journal of
last week. Two days before the report
was published Ihad acOnversation with
DR.. Sands at Gen. Grants house. The re-
suit of the consultation was that we both
decided that the cancerous growth at
the root Of the tongue was hardening
and steadily growing worse. Examiua-
ton by an expert proved beyond a
doubt a case OF malignant epithelical
growth. Gen. Grant is very sick man.
think there is little or no hope that he
will recover. He is breaking down, but
has displayed much courage. For
less than a month he has done
as much as six or eight hours
work per day, but he has had but little
3 sleep in the past eight days, We have
: tried to keep the knowledge Of his true
, condition from the general, because he
; had so many other trubles to boar.
, have all along maintained that his
. trubla is from caucerous growth at the
root Of the tongue, caused undoubtedly
7 by excess in smoking. Every time he
5 speaks or broaihus or eats this is
9 disturbed. IL is difficult to trea'
it for that reason. There have beer
times when the growth has been tenn
purariiy checked, but it never has beer
= arrested, and is steadily increasing
n There has been Cousid cradle loss Of thu
tissue Of tho palate. He takes nourish
! ment every day in liquid form. He car
) not eat solid food, because he has lost al
his teeth. They were extracted in tn
hope of easing the pain in his face
G This psin, although it resenb g
= ueuralgis, is not that pure ana simple
e but is pain caused by cancer in TN
Il throat. He has been suffering fror
e pain in the right ear aud top Of his heaC
~ To ease this his head has been keI
Il wrapped ia hot tlannols. l cannot sa
r how near the end is. lie may live 10
Az months yet; and men sutlerin
10 from this disease have died.
don't think he win ever r.
cover. He is wonderfully patieI
aud accomplishing, aud he pr
MS foundry appreciates the EXPIRE
he sions of sympathy Nhich hay
IL been called out Ivy his recent appallir
or misfortune. lie works every day wi
bandaged head and in unremitting pa
TO finish his military autobiography
ri. history of the war, and hopes to COZ
ia plete IL this spring. lne first volume
art entirely finished, but not revised, I
10 second volume is more than bali don
or He has not taken time TO revise the fl
no volume, because of his apprehensi
ar. that he may not DO ahlo to finish
an second volume.