Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-07-24
RANDALL'S MALADY.
Physicians do Not Talk Hopefully
 of His Case.
RECOVERY IS DOUBTFUL
But on One Point All are Agreed, and That Is that He Has Not Cancer of the Stomach-The Nature of his Di- sease Kept Secret from Patient and Public.

Public.
 WASHINGTON, July 24.--The physicians in attendance on Mir. Randall say little as to his actual condition, but there Is an impression that his diseasc is likely to become serious. He has been troubled in the last few years with rheumatic gout, and this lately devel- oped disease is likely to reduce his strength still further, even if it is temporarily checked. In addition to the troubles which he has suf- fered several alterations have developed, and they are under treatment. Tomorrow morn ing the physicians will tell MT. Randall about the sensational reports about his case, as they fear that he may hear of them and imagine they are deceiving him about his real condi- tion.
 The exclusive story about MT. RandRll's rapid progress to the grave, by the assistance of cancer of the stomach, which appeared ill one of the New York papers this morning, is so exclusive that neither Mir. Randall, his family, nor his physicians know anything about it. Dr. Mallan, who is attending him, said indignantly that MT. Randall had neither cancer nor symptoms Of cancer nor anything which could be construed to indicate the pres | ence of such a malady.
 "We have boon treating MT. Randall" said he, "for hemorrhages from the bowels, and we think that we have them now so well un- der control that they will not occur again. Their recurrence is possibility. but not likely. and there is every reason to hope that MT. Randall will soon be in his usual health again."
 MT. Couts, the clerk of the Appropriations Committee, who has been with Mir. Randall nearly every day for several days, said to-day | he had never seeRed to him to have any trouble | of the kind indicated in the sensation. He went to Mir. Randalrs house this morning, talked over Congressional business with him, and | 1ut hn had n | talk with him about his sickness, in which it | was evident that Mir. Randall had no fears of l cancer. Aftsrward Mir. Randall dictated to | him more than twenty business letters and ! read the newspapers. The physicians are satisfied with his progress, and still intend to remove him to place near his old country residence, where he will have the advantage | of better air than Washington affords at present.
 | PHILADELPHIA, July 24.-Dr. Robert Mar tin, the regular physician of Samuel J. Ran | dall, says his patient is not. suffering from cancer of the stomach, and none of the physi- 1 cians in the case have ever intimated any | such thing. Hc also said that the physicians, l at a consultation recently held, agreed not to l inform MT. Randall of the nature of his dis 1 ease and not to make it public. All inter- views purporting to have been held with the l physicians are false. Dr. Mallan denied per 1 sonally, and with emphasis, tn interview re- l ported to have been held with him.
 He also asserts, with emphasis, that neither he nor any other physician ever performed an | operation on MT. Randall He became ac- quanted with the true nature of his malady | last March, and discovered that he had been l a very sick man for two or three years with out knowing it. He knows nothing of the character of his dsease and it is not desira- ble that he should. His daughter, Mrs. Lan- caster, knows just what the disease is. He never had fstula or hemorrhage before this attack, and never was treated for either. He has an organic disease, but it would not do to talk about it unless the other physicians in | the case were consulted about it.
 Continuing, he said: Il do not know wheth- CT MT. Randalls disease will or will not prove
 fatal. l cannot state definitely as to that
 without consulting my colleagues. He is bet
 ter than he has been at any time since his at
 tack and will very likely be transferred tC
 Mrs. Cox's residence, Wayne Junction. the
 latter part of this or the first of next week, il
 his condition admits of his being trans
 ferred."
 The doctors tone and general manner indi
 cated that he had not but little hope that MT
 Randall will ever recover sufficiently to re-
 enter public life.