New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-06-04
GENERAL SHERIDAN WEAKER
UNFAvoRADLE CHANGES IN PULSE AND
RESPIRATION.
AN UNTRUE REPORT OF AN OPERATION BY DIX
LINCOLN CAUSES ALAHM-THE UNFA'oA"
ABLE SYMPTOMS STILL CONTINUE
lar TELP0RArU TO rUg TrTBUNR.I


far TELEGRAPH THE TrrBusE' -
WASHINGTON, June 3.--Between and ociocS
this evening the physicians in attendance OF
General Sheridan admitted in q bulletin, datcd
back as usual half an hour previously, that there
were unfavorable symptoms manifestins theme
selves with egard to his pulse and respirations
Further thar this no information was afforded.
The previous bulletins, though claiming slight
but definite Improvement had been so general,
and vague in their terms that feeling OF un.l
easiness had been excited, which was intensified
by the fact that to all inquiries made betweefe
the hours of p. m and p. m. at General
Sheridans house the unfailng answer was rec
turned that the General was sleeping peacefully.
This, Of ITSELF considering the peculiar features
of his case, was suspicious symptom, and the,
public have learned to doubt the sufliciencyH
at least, of the official bulletins.
One of the local papers this morning published
with every circumstantial detail! the following
statement:
1t is now learned when Or. Lincoln summoned
on Thursday night he found the situation 30 serious tho
pressure the lungs intense and coughing alarn
Ing that he Immediately sent for his instruments an6
asprated lungs the lower section The aspirator
consists in hollow needle six inches in length at
tached to a rubber tube, bottle and an exhauster
vacuum Is produced in the bottle, the needle pushed
gradually through skin and flesh into the peura and
the lungs The matter in tho lungs flows through the
needle and tube the bottle The operation Afforded
great relief the patient and accounted for the sudde
mysterious disappearance OF the congestion and tho
cessation Of the cough This course, well as ait
others relieve the oedema has distinct tendency
to weaken and has undoubtedly weakened Generat
Sheridan, drawing upon his stock Of vitality, which cam
not restored until he asimIlate food more readily
than at present
Neither the attending surgeons nor Dr. Lincolnl
during the day took any steps to contradict this
report. DR.. Lincoln was called upon by TIM
TRIBUNE correspondent. and declined to say any@
thing on the matter. Personal inquiries at the
house also failed to elicit any response from tho
attending physicians.
Later in the evening Dr. Lincoln, learning that
the statement in relation to his alleged operation
on Thursday had been sent out without contra<
diction, authorized the statement that the whold
report was untrue
1t stands as O fair specimen Of the fakes"
which have been palmed of on the public i'm
this case and also illustrates the unwisdom
of the extreme military reticence mamie
tested by the Army surgeons, whose devotion
to their chief and undagging, self-sacrifcing eff
forts to alleviate his sufferings have otherwise
earned such universal c0mmendatlOn. At ii :45
the statement is that the Jnfavorable symptoms
still continue.
Shortly after 2 o'clock, midnight, the following
bulletin was issued:
General Sherldan's pulse and respiration ,boup
as they before the last bulletin His condition ~
better He is sleeping quietly
ROBERT N. o'RErLLY.
II. c. YARROW.
No further explanations were given other than
those contained in the bulletin Drs. OReilly and
larrow will remain on duty through the night