The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-10-24

wAsHISoroS, D. G., Oct 29.-Dr.
Gardner visited the White House
about FIVE o'clock this afternoon, max
ing the fourth time he had seen Mrs.
Harrison during the day. AS he was
driving out of the grounds he was stop
ped by representative Of the Associated
Press and in response to inquiries said
that Mrs. Harrison was in state OF ex-
treme exhaustion, and that unless she
could rally from it she was apt to pass
away within few hours.
In his opinion she was now as weak
as she possibly could be and still live.
She began failing this morning and has
gradually become weaker and weaker.
She has displayed remarkable vitality
throughout but has nearly reached the
limit Of her endurance.
8 D. m.-Df. Gardner came to the
white house again shortly after Z O'Clock
and remained about half an hour.
When he came down stairs he said that
Mrs. Harrison's condition wds so critical
that she might pass away at any time.
At 10 o'clock DR.. Gardner made an.
other visit to the white house and re-
mained half an hour. When leaving
the house he said Mrs. Harrison was
resting quietly, and he did not think
she would die tonight.
DR.. Gardner at the end OF this visit
notified the President and the members
OF his household OF the precarious con-
dition of Mrs. Harrison, but said he
would not call again during the night
unless summoned by information OF O
change in her present condition.
1890 a. m.-Mrs. Harrison was rest.
ing quietly. There is no change in heI
condition from the previous report.
The president and family circle, fearful
of the worst, are sitting up with the
HER TERkIBLE SUFFERING.
Mrs. Harrison'a illness was the out,
come of an attack of grip during the
winter of 1890, 1891, which left her with
cough lasting for several weeks.
While at Cape May Point in the sum
mer of 1891 she contracted cold which
caused return of the cough and 1t
lasted during the entire summer.
In January, 1902, the cough which
had never entirely lett her, commenced
again to trouble her consideraly. While
Il was not severe enough to confine her
to the house, it was sufficient to re-
ouire frequent medical treatment. In
the following March she had second
attack of the grip, followed this time
by catarrhal pneumonia, lasting about
nine days. ,
from hemorrhage of the lungs which,
although not very severe, caused great
prostration. An examination OF the
lungs several DAYS later revealed dull
ness at the apex of the right lung.
From this time until July 6, the date OF
her removal to Loon Lake, N. Y, there
wasa rise in temperature OF about three
degrees each night and her respiration
at that time averaged about forty per
minute. Several days after her arrival
at Loon Lake she commenced to i'm.
prove.
showed that the upper half of her lung
was completely consolidated. Not
withstanding this condition she was
able to continue her daily drives up to
September Z, on which date she was
stricken down with an attack of sub
acute pleurisy, accompanied by an
effusion of tibro-seroius fluid, COM
pletely filing the cavity Of the peuro on
the right side, necessitating aspirating
or tapping three times.
II was during the existence OF this
complication that a consultation was
held by DR.. Gardner, of Washington,
DR.. Doughty, of New York, and DR..
Trudeau, of saranac, N. Y, resulting in
the issuance September IA, OF a bulletin
to the public announcing that Mrs.
Harrison was afflicted with pulmonary
tuberculosis complicated with pleurisy
and nervous prostration and that the
result was uncertain.
At the time OF Mrs. Harrison's re-
moval to Washington, September Goth,
her right lung was entirely consolidat-
ed. The disease progressed steadily re-
yisting treatment with every known
remedy until eventually the left lung
became involved and then the condi-
ton OF the patient was hopeless. The
case was complicated from the very
first by extreme nervous prostration
which persistently resisted every rem
edy known to medical science.