Iron County register., 1885-04-23
GOOD NEWS,

The Statement Made and the Belief Grow.
ing That the Doctors In General Grants
Case Have Made an Incorrect Diagnosis,
and That His Malady Is Something Less
Dangerous Than Cancer-The Patients
Condition Wonderfully Improved.
NEW YORK, April 1.-THE Sun will
say tomorrow, editorially: "The inn
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
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 scrofula. The gen.
teman said that there was strong proba.
blity that General Grant would recover.
He called attention to the fact that the
Generals most capable physicians had
not signed any bulletins indicating that
his recovery was impossible. There
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 first-named doc
tors.
A REVIEW.
The following will appear in the Med.
zeal r cord 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-
tion of phlegm in the larynx. At no time
has he been in imminent danger of suf-
location. The local disease has made no
progress except to slight extent along
the free border of the right side of the
velum. Sloughy exudation in the vault
of pharynX is beginning to dlSln-
tegrate and portions have been
discharged, exposing a char
acterisic funtgoid granular suaface
underneath. The chances of a mass in
its separation from the throat surface
temporarily obstructing the larynx, have
thus been removed. In consequence of
this change also the local condition is
greatly improved. Glandular swellings
were not perceptbly increased although
the surrounding inflammatory changes
give rise from time to time to ten
derness on pressure. The tpain 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 neighboring tissues tenn
porarly become more Or less ndematous,
explaining the reason for the hemming
cough with which the distinguished pa
tient is very much annoyed.
ellis general condition is much i'm
proved. His food, which is of the most
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 hypodermicaI-
ly in tWenty-fOur hours.