The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-08
Russia Believed To Be Determined on
Enforcing Her Declared Policy,
And if Her Wishes Cannot BE Accomplished
by Diplomacy She Will Resort to War
Queer Articles Among Pope Leo's Presents.
FREDERICK WILLIAM.

| Latest Reports Confirm the Optimistic State.
| ments of DR.. Mackenzie.
Special to the indianapolis Journal
/ LONDON, Jan. The latest intelligence from
| San Reno is rsassuring. DR.. Telschow, one of
| the German court physicians, who has just left
the side of his illustrious patient. reports that
the appearance and general condition of the
| Crown Prince are excellent, and confirms the
optimistic announcements which have been
made by Sir Morel Mackenzie. With this good
news comes revival of the sinister rumor that
| there is party in Germany to whom the re-
ports are not quite welcome. The London Lam
| Get prints the following:
TN our issue of Oct. Is. last year. we pointed
out that there are two forms of chronic indam-
nation of the larynx-one in which the mucous
membrane alone is affected. which is of a trivial
nature. often lasting lifetime without causing
any other Inconvenience than occasional hoarse-
nesss, and another more serious disease which
leads to interstitial thickeniag. liberation, and
! excrescences. We expressed the hope at that
| time that the excellent general health of the
| Crown Prince would prevent the DEVELOPMENT of
the last but it appears that after all the illness
of his Imperial Highness partakes of a character
of more severe form of chronic laryngitis. In
the early part of November when the great con-
sultation of physicians took place, there was a
rapidly growing tumor with an liberated surface
| and enlargement of the glands Of the neck. AL
though 10 microscopic examination of the growth
could be made, it is not surprising that the ply
| sicians in attendance considered themselves
| justified in believing the disease to be cancer.
The signs. we are able authoritatively to state.
have now completely changed. The growth has
shrunk to a fourth of its former bulk. The ul-
Ger on its surface has healed and It's place is
cupied by cicatrix, whilst the enlargement of
the glands has totally disappeared 1t is obvi-
GUS tn at the condition now is therefore very OPP
poste to that which presented itself in Novem-
Der, and it may not unreasonably be hoped that
the case is one of chronic interstitia inf1amma-
ton associated with perichondrtis It must not
be forgotten that Prof. Virchow never found any
malignant elements in the portions of the growth
three occasions; and, further, that
Prof. Virchow has since carefully looked through
all the specimens accessible to him. with view
of discovering. il possible, whether any case
lists in which benign growth has been found to
be present in the immediate neigh borhoo of the
cancer: Not one single instance was found. As
it is highly probable that the whole morbid
process which has been taking place during
the last year is part and parcel of the same dis
ease, there seems to be reason for hoping that
the new formations may not be of malignant
nature
According to the Berlin Tagehlatt, journal
Of considerable repute and influence, there is
clique Of courtiers at Berlin who smile signif-
Gently when the bulletins augur ill., and exhibit
much Impotence when they hopeful as
those of the past week. These persons, who are
the foremost among the war party, desire, 80
says the Tageblatt. the abdication of the Crown
Princeain favor of his fiery young son. This
same organ declares that endeavors are be-
ing lnmade to induce tho sufferer
to undergo an operation-althoueh even
the German doctors attending him n ow profess
to entertain grave doubts as to the cancerous
character Of the disease and as to the necessity
for its surgical treatment-iu the hope that he
may perish under the knife It is hard to be-
leve that there is even q modicum of truth in
th ess statements, and yet the anxiety expressed
by the Crown Prince that the news of his i'm
proved condition should be spread FAR and
wide justifies the presumption that his illness
has been used in manner which is causing the
patient some anxiety. Tho National Zeitune
strongly deprecates the insinuation made by the
Tageblatt, but by DO means disposes of their be-
Then the Neue Freie Presse regarding the
subject from totally different point of view,
arrives at the same conclusions as those adopted
by the TaReblatt. There seems no doubt that
there ID band of young boods in Berlin
who resemb lie very much in their impatience for
a war the DeRouledists in Paris, whose hands
tongues are ever clamoring for la revancha The
leader and hero of these preciDitats patriots is
Prince William, whose warlke speech to the
hearts. Their admiration of him is founded
upon the knowledge that be hates the
Ere with an implaeabs hatred
opportunity to repeat the scenes OF 1871. Fortu-
nately. the possibility that the opportunity will
soon arrive is becoming more remote. if the |
ports from San Reno do not exageerate the /!
truth about the Crown Princes condition. The |
guarantee for the continued main |
tenance of peace between Germany aud France |
is in the Grown Princes pacific predispoaitions |
and it is on that account that they who wish the |
we'll welcome every item of good |
news which comes to them of the invalid at San |
Reno.
DR.. Virchow's paper ON the diagnosis and |
prognosis of cancer does not encourage the view |
that the Crown Princes malady is non-cancer-
ous. 1t rather proves that all his symptoms are |
with cancer, and that the cicatrzing |
OF the tumors on which DR.. Mackenzie rests
hope, occurs frequently in cancers and does not
denote that the tumors are healing
WAR ArVnNS