Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-09-01
CLEvELAND's ALLEGED MALADY.
There Was An Operation, 1t Appears, but
Not for Cancer.
CNew York World. of Yesterday.)

CNew York World, of Yesterday
No official statement has yet been given
out concerning the nature OF the trouble
for which President Cleveland underwent
an operation last month. and there viii
be none until Dr. Bryant sees fit to pre-
pare one.
The Presidents physician is still out OF
town.
His assistant. DIR. Erdman. says he
knows nothing about either the disease or
the operation and referred all questioners
yesterday to Or. Bryant. SO did DR..
Hasbrouck. who was the maddest man In
New York over the garbled interviews
purporting to be with him which ap-
Deared in several Republican newspapers
he. further than that an operation had
been performed on the presidents mouth
yesterday morning.
II said nothing TO any reporter" said
he. further than that an operation had
aboard Mr. Benedct's yacht. | went into
no details and did not mention the name
OF any one concerned in the operation.
Some of the men who called on me
had messages from Philadelphia. and
mentioned the name OF DR.. Keen, OF that
| city When that and the fact that the
original story came from Philadelphia
are taken into consideration it Is unfair
| that | should be placed in the position
OF revealing professional secrets. l do
| not care to say where | believe the story
| came from. but the connection appears to
| be obvious
81 have never made II my habit to talk
to the public Of any case that comes un-
der my care. and / most certainly shall
| not do so now. Further than that, II Is
not my place to talk OF the case. was
not in charge of It. / went along to adj
1 nd 20, In w hD
| dental work might be necessary in any
disease of the mouth.
| II must say that l cannot understand
| the motives OF the man who gave out this
story to the Philadelphia papers, except
| that he was looking for an advertisement
| There certaily is an element o. truth In
| II. and Il could only have been given out
| b. some one who knew all the facts IN
| the case. The story has been amplined
! and embroidered by the Republican pa
| pers. as might be expected. and l hope
| that an official statement Will soon be
| made to the public TO hush the spreading
stories Of a serious Illness.
| 81 believe. however" said DR.. Has
| brouck. after few minutes consldera-
| ton. that | am justified in saying this
| President Cleveland has just the same
| amount of cancer or sarcoma In his sys-
L i I
| stories say that two upper teeth were re-
| moved. and l as firmly believe that the
announcement came from some one who
| was present. I may as well admit thai
two teeth were extracted and slight
operation upon the jawbone and the sur
roundig tissue was performed. But 1t Is
onlv such case as / meet almost
| weekly in my practice. 1t resulted from
m liberation. and such an operation OF
John Smith or Bill Jones would not FIND
its way into any sort OF print.
THE interviews with me are as true II
every detail as the statement that ] sale
had spent three days at Buzzards Bay
| with the President after the operation.
never set foot on that shore i'm my life.
1t was said yesterday that Or. Charles
McBurrey Of No. 2S West Thirty-seventl
street. had been present at the operation
| DR. Hasbrouck refused TO say whether h
had or had not and DR.. McBurrey'5 ser
wants said that he was away in tn
| mountains and that no date had bee
set for his return.
| T.. c. Benedicts brother, James Bene
dict, sald yesterday that an operation ha'
| been performed on the Presidents uppe
law bone. but that 1t vas an every-da.
sort of treatment and had been as sue
cesSful az So simple an operation deserved
TO le.