The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-01-12
HOW THE KHEDIVE DIED.
London Papers Still Assert that
Ignorance Killed Him.
THE HEIR TO ENGLAND'S THRONE
REPORTED VERY I'LL.

Egypt's Dead Monarch Said to Have
Blamed Himself The Peculiar Per-
formances of Salem Pasha-The
Princess of Wales Nursing Her Sick
Son-His Illness Making Him Popular
Revolution in Yomen.
LONDON, January 1.-THE Times,
Daily News, Standard and Chronicle, and
other leading newspapers this morning
all confirm the report that the Khedive
died from the effects of an overdose of
morphine administered to him by ma
tive physician.
They say that the report of DR.. Co.
manos, one of the most prominent physi-
clans of Cairo, and of his assistant, DR..
Ross, is about as follows: These physi-
clans, they claim, were sent for on
Thursday morning, and went by special
train to the Helonan Palace, when DR..
Salem Pasha informed them that the
Khedive had been suffering from influ-
enza for eight days. The native physi-
clan said that he had given his patient
morphine, and that he had sent for Eu-
ropean physicians when serious symp-
toms had developed.
The latter. according to the London
newspapers, add that the Khedive, pale
and haggard was in bed, supported in the
arms of two of his servants. He expert
enced great difficulty in breathing, his
Temperature was 104, and his pulse
quick and feeble.
Drs. Comanos and Ross found that both
his lungs were attacked, by bronchial
pneumonia on the left and by bronchial
catarrh on the right. The European
physicians prescribed for the sufferer and
returned to Cairo. Soon after they were
summoned to return and found the Khe-
dive worse, his suffering clearly indicat-
ing that he was suffering from blood poi
soning.
BY that time, they add, he was beyond
the aid of science and died at 7.15. The
disappearance of DR.. Salem Pasha and
his subsequent return are not denied by
the special dispatches to the London
newspapers.
The native doctor left the palace after
administering the last dose of morphine
to the Khedive, although he had been re-
known nothing Of the state of the pa
TENTS lungs, and each day reported that
he was improving. He is said. to have
dispatched a telegram to that effect, al
though death was certain from the mo
mentt that morphine was administered.
DR.. Salem Pasha's disappearance is
said to have been caused by his fear that
he would be killed for having Indirectly
caused the death of the Khedive.
The greatest excitement prevailed at
Cairo when the report that the Khedive
had been poisoned gained circulation,
and much excitement is still manifested
there among the native population.
DR.. Salem Pasha is reported to have
been sued three years ago for allowing a
patient to die through his ignorance of
the disease from which he was suffering,
The Khedive, according to the story,
paid the $4,000 damages which, the rela-
tives of the dead man asked for.
Another account of the Khedive's
death says that he was suffering from di-
abetes when he was attacked by grippe
and it is added that his physicians have
stimulated his vital power instead of di-
minishing it by injections of morphine.
CAIRO, January 11.-It is learned that
DR.. Salem injected morphia Wednesday
night into the arms of the Knedive and
then left the palace. Early the next
morning 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
vicereine, who acceded to his advice to
summon the aid of European physicians.
Doctors Comanos and Rose could not
obtain the drugs required, and had to
send to Cairo for them. After finding
that the case was hopeless they told Dr.
Salem to acquaint the members of the
ministry with the Khedive's condition.
DR.. Salem disregarded their advice and
dispatched kilograms to the ministers,
saying the Khedive was better.
The Khedive was not seen by the off
GERS of his household or by any of the
ministers from the time he was confined
to his room. Even ON Thursday noon
DR.. Salem reported that the Khedive
might attend a dinner appointed for the
following week.
The Khedive, when nearing his end, is
reported to have said that he had only
himself to blame. 1t is supposed that
he referred to his omission to call in Eu
ropean doctors.