Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-11
THE KHEDIVE KILLED
By the Probable Blunder-
ing Of His Ignorant
Native Physicians.
WHITE DOCTORS REPORT.
When the Case Was Hopeless Salem
Sent False Reports That
THE MONARCH WAS CONFALEsCENT
Abbas Pasha, the New Hing, Will Arrive
in Egypt on Thursday.
WHITE DOCTORS REPORT.
THE MONARCH WAS CONTALEsCENT
NO STARTLING POLITICAL EFFECTS

CAIRO, Jan. 1o-Drs. HesSe and Comanos,
the European physicians who attended the
Khedive during the last hours Of his life,
to-day presented to the Premier their prom
ised joint report on the case. They state
that they arrived at the palace at o'clock
THURSDAY morning. DR.. Salem, one of the
native physicians in attendance on the
patient, then informed them that the Khe-
dive had been suffering from influenza for a
week, but that until Wednesday nothing
abnormal had been observed in his con-
dition.
When they (Hesse and Comanos) ex-
amined the Khedfve they found congestion
Of the lungs present. but not in a degree
sufficient to account for the grave condition
of the patient After prescribing a rigor-
Gus course Of treatment the two European
doctors returned to Cairo.
On revisiting their patient at o'clock
Thursday afternoon they found his lungs in
worse condition, and that desperate cere-
bral symptoms had supervened, indicating
ureamia.
A Complication of Diseases
After performing an operation they dis
covered that the patient had been attacked
bv infectious pneumonia after being seized
with influenza, complicated by nephritis,
which caused his death.
1t is learned later to-day that DR.. Salem
injected morphia Wednesday night and
then left the palace. Early the next MORN
ing the Khedive begged the other doctor in
attendance to repeat the dose of morphia in
order to allay the pain, but the doctor was
afraid to comply with the request and
sought the advice of the Ticeroy, who
acceded to his advice to summon the aid of
European physicians
Drs. Comanos and Hesse could not OBJ
tain the drugs required and had to send to
Cairo for them After finding that the case
was hopeless they told DR.. Salem TO ac-
quaint the members of the Ministry with
the Khedive's condition. Dr. Salem ig-
nored their advice and dispatched kilograms
TO the Ministers, saying that the Khediye
was better
The khedive was not seen by the officers
of his household or by anv of the ministers
from the time he was confined to his room.
Even on Thursday at noon DR.. Salem re-
ported that the Khedive might attend a
dinner appointed for the following week.
The Khedive Blamed Himself
The khedive, when nearing his end, is re-
ported TO have said that he had only him.
self to blame. 1t Is supposed that he re-
ferred to his omission TO call in European
doctors to attend him.
Abbas Pasha, the new Khedive, is ex-
pected to arrive in Alexandria aboard the
Khedivial yacht from Trieste Thursday at
daybreak The Cabinet Ministers will meet
him at the landing and escort him to Cairo
There will be no reception ceremonies
at the railway station there British and
Egyptian troops viii be drawn ND
along the route from the station to the
Abdin palace, whittier the Prince will go
directly. On his arrival at the palace he
will be accorded an official reception by Vs.
rious notables of the vice regal court
A cable dispatch from Constantinorle !
says: 1t is understood in Diplomatic circles
here that the accession of Abbas Pasha will
not alter the present situation. nor precipi- |
tate fresh negotiations between England
and Turkey.