The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-17
Clinical Symptoms Compatible with Nom
Malignant Disease, but They Refrain from
Saying that the Ailment Is Not Cancer.
Berlin's Citizens Excited Over Rumors
of Preparations for Regency.
Editor OBrien Talks Back at Secretary Bal
four and Defes Him to Prove His lnsnu-
ations - General News by Cable.
FREDERICK WILLIAM.
A Medical Report Which Will Do Little te
AlIay Public Apprehension.

A Medical Report Which Will Do Little to
Allay Public Apprehension.
BERLIN, Feb. 16.-Full reports concerning the
condition of the Crown Prince issued by Pro
fsssorVirchow and DIR. Mackenzie. state thas
the disease with which he is afflicted is not of
caIcerous nature. The Berlin Tageblatt says
that DR.. Mackenzie. in his report the the
disease of the German Crown Prince, which was
sent to Berlin Sunday, states that from the
outset he has adhered to the view that the
Crown Princes complaint is not of cancerous
nature. In May, after Professor Virchow's
microscopic examination. and also IN October
and November, when the indications favoring
the theory of malignant disease had increased,
he forwarded reports. which were deposited in
the state archives at Berlin. saying that despite
those symptoms there proof Of the ex-
istence of cancer; further than this, Professor
Virchow found nothing of a cancerous nature in
the matter coughed up by the Prince. From the
beginning OF the disease the clinical signs have
been coln patibls with the view that the disease
was not cancer, which view the micr oscope has
confirmed.
The Reichsanzsiger publishes the text of DR..
Mackenzie's report, which agrees with the
Tageblatt's summary. IN concluding, DR.. Mac
kenzie says:
1.-THE clinical SYMPTOMS nave at all times been
compatible with those OF non-malignant dis
ease. The results of the microscopical exami-
nation have agreed with this view. Although in
nearly every case of disease of the larynx it is
possible 20 make an exact diagnosis of the nat
ure of the complaint at the first examination,
there some very in which the
character of the disease be determined only
from its progress. The Crown Princes malady
belongs to the category of doubtful cases, SO
that at the present moment medical science
does NOT permit me to affirm that disease exists
other than chronic Inflammation of the larynx,
combined with perichondritis."
The London Lancet. medical journal, says:
''Dr. Mackenzies report will not do much to
allay the anxiety concerning the Crown Prince
of Germany. It is impossible to find in the
port a distinct expression of the opinon that the
disease is certainly not cancer. The diagnosis
has been uncertain since May, and continues to
be uncertain f"
A dispatch from Sau Reno says that DR. Mac
kepzie has protested against the course of treat
ment pursued by the German doctors in the
of Crown Prince Frederick William.
A bulletin issued at noon to-day stated that
the Crown Princes rest last night was much
disturbed oy coughing and the raising of
phlegm. Otherwise his condition is unaitered.
Tho Borsen Courier says that at the consulta-
ton of physicians at San Reno to-day DIR.
while DIR. Mackenzie defended the opposite
opinion, even more positively thar ever before
The Grown Prince felt much better tonight,
and was in a very cheerful mood. He was fully
dressed, but did not leave his room. A new
tube has been inserted in his throat, ard he is
quite comfortable. but is not allowed to talk
DR.. Mackenzie will probably leave San Reno on
Sunday