The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-02
Mr.. CLEVELAND'S HEALTH.
Sensational Story Told In a Phila-
dGlphia Paper.

Gas And the Surgeons Knife Upon a
stcical Patient.
Holland. " in the Philadelphia Press
New York, Aug. 2S.-Mr. Cleveland re-
turns to Washington some day this week
if1lI goes well, and there are unusual rea-
sons why, when he is again in the cap
iral. he should receive most tender, con-
siderate and gentle sympathy and sup
p3rt not only from those who are in pub
lie life but also from the people them
selves He takes back to Washington
burden and dread which he might very
Justly regard of greater moment than the
financial situation which he has reQues-
ted congress instantly to ameliorate.
II is useless longer to conceal the fact
that Mr. Cleveland is a sick man, per-
haps a very sick man, and that the ply
sycians have fear that mortal disease is
lurking in his system, Notwithstanding
the heroic efforts of surgery to remove it
during the summer.
II was in the late spring that Mr.
Cleveland began to be tOrmented by pain
which seemed to proceed from tooth.
He endured it like hero Many times
when congressman and others were con-
sulting with him his face was racked
with pain while the struggle to endure it
without suggesting emotion caused him
TO appear to them Indifferent, phlegmatic
and unimpressed by the gravity of the
political situation. The President en-
dured as only a hero can; the pain cost
him sleep, and doubtless did much so to
lower his vitality as to develop the rheu-
matte trouble which has always lurked in
his system.
The pain did not yield to local and usual
treatment. When the first and careful
examination was made, my informants do
not know they do know that there was
time shortly before the President is
sued his call for the extraordinary Ses-
sion of congress, when it was determined
that an operation was inevitable, how
grave or extensive could not at first be
determined 1t is probable that the de-
cision to perform the operation while the
President was upon Mr.. Benedict's yacht
was due to several reasons-one, perhaps,
that the family, being in ignorance, might
not be overwhelmed by anxiety and sus-
pense; another, that If the operation was
performed with surgical success the
country might not be alarmed, since it
was only too well understood that the
ablest business men of both parties
looked with confidence upon Mr.. Cleve-
land, rather than his party, and contem-
plated any contingency by which the sue
cession would revert to another with ut
most anxiety.
THE OPERATION.
Mr.. Cleveland, with Mr. Lamont, left
Washington quite suddenly upon the day
when the call for the extraordinary SEES
sion of congress was issued Arrange
ments were made in this city with celer-
ity, and Mr. Cleveland was met when he
arrived here by DR. Bryant and another
physician, and by DIR. Hasbrouck, all of
whom boarded the yatch with him. The
baggage of these physicians contained
the instruments of surgery and the APP
paratus for an9sthetic administration
DR.. Hasbrouck had this latter apparatus
in charge. He is a physician here who is
regarded as perhaps the most expert in
the city in the administration of anas-
thetlc gas. He is employed profession
ally by most of the ablest surgeons when
it is deemed advisable to use gas rather
than ether
Mr.. Cleveland, almost as soon as he
boarded the yacht, retired to his state
room and fell into heavy slumber. The
intimation was made to me that he might
have received hypodermic injection; GER
tainly it was deemed desirable that he
should enjoy prolonged sleep before he
yielded himself to the surgeon, and he
did sleep until well into the next day.
When the time came the President of
the United States submitted himself to
the surgeon as calmly, as gently, and as
willingly as though he was merely lying
down for brief sIumber
1t was deemed advisable to use gas as
an ansesthetic rather than ether be-
cause the operation was to be such as
would entail severe hemorrhages, which
might possibly lead to the flow of blood
IN the windpipe. BY using gas recovery
would be almost instantaneous, whereas
ether entails much slower recovery, so
that in case of such hemorrhage there
might be sutfocation
The President yielded easily to the anRs-
thetlc, and the surgeons then began their
task OF awful responsibility. The oper-
atlon did not require very long, but it en-
lalled the cutting away of considerable
part OF the upper jaw bone upon one side,
lAe instrument boring through the bone
ana the tissue as far as the orbital plate
The operation was thorough. The
physicians believe that they have removed
al or the diseased tissue and bone al
though in doing it the removal of so much
OF the jaw as that was entailed Of
course In doing this teeth We're extracted,
SO Ghat the physicians We're truthful
when they afterward said that the Presi-
Gent mad had some teeth pulled but while
he was on Mr.. Benedict's yacht They
were also well-within the rules of pro-
lesSlonal diplomacy when they denied
mat any other operation than that of
ordinary gentle surgery had been per-
formed, and they now defend these state
nents and are quite likely publicly to
INSIST that they said all that was neces-
SSary TO say, or that the operation justi-
yea when they announced that Mr.. Cleve-
!and had merely had some teeth ex-
tracted.
AFTER THE OPERATION.
such an operation as this entails pro-
tuse hemorrhage, and after the diseased
issue was removed the surgeons speedily
dressed the wound and then, 10 use pro-
leSslonal term, plugged" it. That is to
SSdy, they packed the cavity made by the
Aulyes and saws with antiseptic cotton,
80 mat 1t might be healed speedily and so
as 10 prevent great loss of blood. But
ttney We're apprehensive of a secondary
nnelorrhage, which might entail another
UpeIatlon, or at least require such treat
,Ioug as would make the use of an anes-
SIneuc necessary. Therefore DR. Has
Sloqck was kept upon the yacht two days,
o. mai ne might be at hand with his gas
ppafatus IN case further operation should
Oe necessary.
on, ~ gave the physicians great hope and
management that no such treatment
bad.S5 demanded. The wound seemed to
fD CaI easily, naturally, and that of itself
e eoa u4snes considerable hope that the dis
use winch called for this heroic treat