New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-06-06
LIFE SLOWLY EBBING AWAY.
GENERAL STERIDAN'S VITAL FORCES GREAT
LY REDUCED By RECENT ATTACKS
THE EXISTENCE OF PULMONARY AND HEART
TROUBLES FULLY DEMoNsTRArED-GRAVE
FEARS OF A FURTHER RELAPsE-MEA-
GRE INDIGNATION OF THE Ply.
sIcIANS BULLETINS.
fBr rELgGRArH TO THE TRIBUNE

| sIcIANS' BULLETINS.
| rBr rELgGRArH rKIBusE1
| WASHINGTON, June 5.-As far as can be learned
up to o'clock this evening General Sheridan's
condition is certainly no worse than it was at
the corresponding time last night 1t is often
asserted that he has improved. but inasmuch as
the official bulletins admitted that two additional
hemorrhages had taken place, this statement must
be taken only relatively to the condition IN
which the General was when regarded as being
/ in articulo mortis
! IL seems impossible to impress upon the army
surgeons who have undertaken the responsibility
of saving to the Nation the life of General
Philip H. Sheridan the fact that he is the General
OF the Army of the United States, and that
$4,000, 900 Of people, with the possible exception
of a few thousand irreconcables, arc earnestly
watching each phase Of the dread disease against
which he is making so brave a fight with the odds
overwelmingly against him. They appear to be
entirely unable TO rise above the idea that the
preservation Of Sheridans life is something in
which his military aids and associates are about
the only persons Interested outside, Of course OF
his immediate family.
| For example: the bulletin issued at o'clock
this morning was dictated by DR.. Pepper Of
Philadelphia, gentleman who though holding
a high position in the University of Pennsylvania,
I
the case as consulting physician by DR.. O'Reilly.
His presence in the consultation was Immediately
productive of a bulletin which said something
and gave to the general public some
idea Of the progress Of the case.
AT the same time all the
facts therein recited related back to the occur
rences which had taken place before p. IN. Of the
previous day and which might have been included
and should have been included in the bulletins
issued by the Army surgeons at s:15 and II,
midnight.
The bulletin stated that the Generals pulse
showed fair volume and was beating l 9 to the
minute (hs normal pulse according TO statements
previously made being 06). This gave some data
for comparison. The doctors further admit that
the respiration was 80 and his temperature nor
NAL On Thursday his temperature was up to
over 90 degrees and the Army surgeons did not
even mention il in the bulletin. The bulletin
adds that the pulmonary trouble is progressing
favorably." In previous bulletins no pulmonary
trouble Of any kind had ever been recognized
Then comes the statement that the cOngested
condition which increased thrty-siX hours ago.
-thlrty-SiX hours ago none Of these physicians
admitted that anything OF the kind existed" was
followed by. a considerable hemoThage from the
stomach and bowels yesterday lMOndaTl at 2 p.
N. The shock Of this was, unfortunately, almost
fatal, it Immediately developed return of
grave heart failure. The most powerful reStora-
d
No statement Is made as TO the nature OF those
restoratives. Unofficial reports have said that
electricity was used. The doctors ere silent. They
proceed Since this was accomplished no fresh
trouble has appeared. The heart has rallied as
promptly could have been hoped, considering
the organic disease present The kidneys are act
ing better than at any previous time No pre-
vious mention has ever been allowed to appear in
any of the Army surgeons bulletins that there Was
the slightest arrangement Of the Kidneys. The
bulletin ends The nervous force shows seri-
mn gt cDrf-
tinue to be felt its endurance in case OF any
further complication. The remedies and food are
borne remarkably we'll"
DR.. Pepper returned to Philadelphia early in the
morning. The subsequent bulletins Of the physi-
clans bore traces of having been spurred up TO q
little more directness Of statement ty their civil
ian associate. but the unofficial utterances which
have been given out from time TO time during the
day still bear the unsatisfactory stamp, resting
quietly which seemed to indicate a gradual sink
ing into the valley Of the shadow Of death
The following bulletin was issued at o'clock !:
Since the last bulletin General sheridan's pulse has
averaged lO5 70 the minute, and its quality
breathing is generally regular and deeper cough is not
troublesome and tntie IS difficulty in cxpectoraon The
voice the appearance more natural tho mind
quite unclouded There been no recurrence OF the
hemerrhtge For the time beng there Is manifest i'm.
proyement In the Generals condition
T. NJ. O'REILLY
WASHINGTON MATTHEWS.
c. b. BYRNE.
HENRY C. NARROW
Personal inquiries made by THE tribune cor
respondent at General Sheridan's house shortly
before midnight elected the information that his
present condition such that there was no
reasonable probability of crisis occurring before
morning His vitality is slowly ebbing away
His pulse had fallen below the normal beat but
he was suffering no pain, and was resting
quietly 1t is, Of course, obN ious from the adj
mission made in the closing paragraph Of this
mornings bulletin that if relapse should happen.
his nerve force is not strong enough to stand up
against the shock and the remedies B1t there
are no indications either in pulse respiration or
temperature pointing to an immediate relapse
DIR. PEPPER ON SIIFRTDAN,S DrSr,cr