The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-03-03
YOUNG ABRAHAM lINCOLES SUFFERING.
The Youthful Patient Living when
Many Would Have Died.
Serious Trouble Aggravated nv n
sungIIng Surgical Operation.
Torres Straits the Graveyard for over
a Hundred Voyagers.

LONDON, March 2.-YouDg Abraham Lin
coin is still alive but Is very feeble.
New YORK. March 2.-The Sun prints the
following account OF the illness of Minister
Lincoln's young son:
"His Illness began just four months ago.
When at school at Versailles he felt some
inconvenience from what at first was sup
posed to be simple boil, but which on sur
gical examination was pronounced to be a
malignant earbuncle. 1t Is alleged, and 1t Is
believed truthfully, that the French surgeons
operated too soon, cut the carbuncle In an
unscientihc manner, and did not Afterward
give the patient proper attention, with he
result that curious kind OF blood poison
ing set In. The earDuncle Is situated on the
left side below the armpit. The patient got
weaker and weaker, and at length the Min
lister called In British specialists, who pro-
nOunced the treatment radically wrong, and
urged removal to London as the only means
doubtful whether he could bear the
journey, but his friends communicated
with the famous st. Johns Ambulance
Society, whose headquarters are 10 Lon
don, and the officials kindly made special and
most skilful arrangements for the journey.
which was successfully accomplished SO
carefully was the patients comfort looked
after that, when the specially constructed
litter In which he had travelled for
ten hours arrived at the Min
ister's house in Cromwell road, Ken
sington, 1t was found that the little fellow
had hardly changed his position and was not
IN the least exhaused. Specialists were al
once called In, among them the famous sur
geon. Sir Wm. Paget, and, after prolonged
consultation, agreed upon the treatment
which has been since followed with OCCASION
al notifications necessitated by the varying
phases OF the disease.
'For some time past the chief danger has
been the probability of an effusion Of corrupt
matter to the heart and more particularly to
she lungs. This made necessary distress
singiy frequent operations, which had the
natural effoct OF weakening the patient.
What these operations mean may be esti-
mated from the fact that the result of one OF
several performed on Wednesday was the
tapping OF more than three pints Of matter.
minister opiates to deaden the pain, and
stimulants, chiefly rye whiskey, and fluid
nourishment to maintain vitality.
1.-TWO things have been greatly In the pa
TENTS favor First, there has been no
stomach trouble, and second, his indomita-
BILE pluck and wonderful spirits In the alb.
sence Of either Of these he must have died
long ago. His courage Is shown particularly
during the painful business OF dressing the
surgical wounds. which now are almost
merged into one large mass, covering the
most Of the left side. He scarcely ever
filnches, and when conscious, as he generally
Is, watches the surgeon with smiling face.
The doctors In immediate attendance are
DIR. MacLagar, DR.. Webster Jones, who for
merly had large practice in Chicago, DIR.
Bliss, another well known American; DIR. T.
g. Smith and DR.. Heath, who lives close by.
One OF these gentlemen is always by the
side"