Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-07-23

the night more than they were prepared to
f1nd the patient alive in the morning at seven.
However. as the three physicians were at
oinner. Harrison came to the hotel and called
l)r. Douglass who went at orce and alone to
the cottage. Soon another messenger sum-
moned Drs Shrady and Sands and they went
al once TO the cottage, closely followed BY
DR. Newman. The exit of the doctors and
clergyman from the hotel were so quietly
affected that few knew that they had been
summoned to the cottage. When they ar.
rived there they found the General evidently
sinking The General seemed restless.
Would you like TO lay down?" asked Col
Fred Grant, who had noticed that his father
was restless. The General nodded and at
the same time essayed to rise unassisted, but
the effort was too great and he sank back
into his chair and the Colonel and the nurse
aided him to arise and supported him TO the
bed where he was carefully lowered to re-
clining position and partly on his face. DR..
Douglass then rolled the chair back and one
of the physicians remarked that the General
has now left his chair for the last time. The
belief that the General has at last lain down
to die then became the conviction. The
family all gathered at the side of the sick
man and again DR.. Newman, at about the
same hour as last night and at the request
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prayed. Heads were bowed and tears were
on the cheeks of men AS well as women. The
doctors stood somewhat apart and the family
was near its fast sinking head and after an
hour death seems little less rapidly gaming
on the man it has pursued just nine months
today, for 1t is just nine months today that
Gen. Grant walked into DR.. Douglass office
to seek his professional aid for the cancer
that has done what foes and war could not.
Then the doctors and clergyman strolled out
on the piazza and sat near the psrlor windows
and Jesse Grant joined them at times, but
the other members of the family remained in
the room and watched and waited while the
General answered ''yes" and mo" to several
questions. Time then passed slowly indeed,
and at length at Is DR.. Douglass left the
cottage. "How is he. doctor?" was asked
him. "He is diving" said the gray-haired
physician. "Will he live an hour?"
was asked again. "Oh, yes, and pos
sibly more, but he is passing away"
was the response, and after a little time at
the hotel, DIR. Douglass returned to the cot
tage.
At 8 O'Clock the Generals pulse was up to
point of l65 beats minute and was flut-
terng. After his rally, about 9 o'clock, the
General sank into a gentle slumber. This
condition, however, is not one to command
confidence, for the pulse beats still rapidly
fluttering, and the respiration, which nor
mally is IA to the minute, is now A.
Al lo.3O, however, II was stated that the
General was in slightly better condition than
two hours ago. During the evening, the ex-
tremities of the sick man had been cold and
the invisible symptoms are signs that nature
puts out when ath is chilling the powers
The General, as the night passes seems to
be suffering no pain, though the lines of his
face are tensely drawn and the burrows of
the brow are knitted, as he lies upon the cot,
beside which the family are constantly watch
ing.
At midnight. Gen. Grant remains quiet.
though not asleep. The coming hour is an.
ticlpated with great anxiety
AT ii o'clock, The General was not asleep
His hands and fUrearms were colder than
two hours before but his feet were not so
much so. The pulse and respiration had not
changed, but the patients mind was yet clear
and comprehensive of the events and utter
ances about him.
Between 10 and IL o'clock, Dr. Shrady had
accosted the General and he answered in a
husky voice and promptly. Stmulants were
being used, but sparingy, and there was ex-
pressed by medical authority, about IL
o'clock, the belief that the closing crisis may
occur either at or o'clock in the morning.
At midnight bottles of hot water were
placed at the Generals feet to induce warmth
and mustard draughts were applied on the
stomach and breast, to preserve the tagging
circulation. DR.. Sands is resting at the
hotel and Drs. Douglass and Shradv are at
the cottage with the patient and his family.
l A. M.-The General remains in the same
quiet condition. His pulse and respiration
are unchanged and there is a feeling that he
may tide over the midnight season of weak
ness and until A. NJ. Hypodermics of
brandy are being used.
MT. MCGREGoR, July 20.
The family is astir in the cottage, though
there are no visible indications that point to
different condition than that at the time of
the last bulletin.
A. M.-Gen. Grant is in a somnolent
condition. The resperations have grown shal
low and the general is no longer able to ex-
rectorate because of weakness which is in
creasing. There seems little possibility that
the patient will survive the night.
The respirations are So The pulse is so
rapid as not to be counted and hypodermics
which have been administered through the
night have no longer any marked effect. The
family are still astir.