Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-07-05
THREATENED WITH LOCKJAw.
Morris Adler's Condition - Alarming
Symptoms Yesterday-A Rally To-day.

There was a rumor about the city this morn
ing that Morris Adler was dead. 1t was fount
| that this report was based on the removal o.
the ropes that had been stretched across &
street, between 9Th and 7th Streets The only
object In putting up the ropes was to secure al
much quiet as possible during the Fourth Of July
in the vicinity Of the house where the sick mar
lay. The noisy demonstrations Of the day
however, penetrated the quiet Of the sick room
and worried and fretted the patient. Along
that square there was no noise and the neigh.
bors in the vicinity were kind and considerable
and their children went to other localities to
celebrate the day. But in spite Of it all the
noise attending the anniversary Of the indie
penderce of the country contributed consider
ably to the bad day which the patient expert
enced. 1t was one of those attacks which the
doctors say man in the condition OF Mr. Adler
is liable to have, and it left him weaker and
less able to Withstand the slow but insidious
progress of the
DRAINING AWAY OF HIS VITAL POWERS.
Yesterday his temperature was over 1O2, his
pulse SO in the morning and 104 in the evening,
and his respiration 80. His breathing was slow
and laborious, his appetite poor, his eyes had
lost their brightness and he was peevish and
restless. He complained of pains in his left
shoulder and in his right leg. There were
spasmodic twitchings in his legs, which the ex-
perienced eve Of DR.. Wagner, his constant at
tendant, recognized as the symptoms of APP
preaching tetanus or lockjaw, which sometimes
results from such wound His condition was
alarming, and DR.. Bayne paid two visits in
stead OF one, and the proper precautions were
adopted to avoid lockjaw.
A BAD NIGHT.
Adler was SO restless that DIR. Wagner found
it necessary to give him hypodermic in
lection of morphine during the night, as well as
one during the day. Toward morning a
change took place in the condition of the
patient His temperature dropped to 100 and
later to SO 49, his pulse to Sc and his respiration
to %. His condition of last Tuesday and We'd
was not regained On Wednesday his tempera-
ture was SO 2-l0. To-day it is only trife
higher. His attendants say that their patient
is better to-day as compared with yesterday,
but the attack of yesterday has left him weaker.
There is a marked change in his disposition.
He has lost his cheerfulness and, to q large ex-
tent, his appetite. He betrays symptoms
of growing weakness. Yet he does not seem
to realize the seriousness of his condition, and
does not anticipate death.
WHAT ONE OF THE PHYSICIANS SAYS.
After the daily visit of the physicians this
morning one Of the doctors said to STAR re-
porter: ''All that can be said about the case is
that Mr.. Adler is holding his own very well for
a man in his critical condition. 1t is impossi-
BILE to say when there will be change"
This is the eighteenth day since the fatal
shot was fired and the paralysis is rs complete,
the doctors say, as on the first day. The witch
ing Of the legs is said to be entirely involun-
tary.
The interest manifested in the case is
apparent from the large number of persons
who call at the Adler residence every day and
inquire after the patient.