The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-09-07
President
WILL RECOVER
That Is the Belief Of Dr.. Carl
Seiler--ReaSOnS That
He Gives.

DR.. Carl Seller, the eminent special
list, does not believe the president is
in danger of death from the wounds
he received yesterday. To Tribune
man he said last night:
"The latest bulletins from President
Mckinley are. from medical stand
point, very encouraging. inasmuch as
they lead us to believe that the second
bullet entered the presidents body to
the left of the breast bone, below the
heart and passing through the stom-
ach is probably lodged in the large
muscle of the back, to the right of the
SPINE. Such a wound, in the light OF
the present advanced methods of sur
gerry and under the care of one Of the
| most successful surgeons of the pres
ent time, DIR. Roswell Parkc, must not
be looked upon as necessarily, or even
commonly fatal, and the physical con-
dition of the patient shortly after the
opera ton of closing the two bullet
holes in the front and back wall of
the stomach, gives us every reason to
believe that the president will make
a speedy recovery.
wounds of the walls of the stom-
ach are by no means uncommon and
the patients, as a rule, recover from
the injury. The earliest and most re-
markable case was that of st, Martin,
a French Canadian guide and hunter.
who was shot In the stomach while
hunting in the Wilds of Canada with
| an Indian arrow. His companion With
drew the iron barbed arrow head and
in doing so cut a cash through the
wall of the stomach and the skin of
the abdomen. Without medical assist
ance, the wound healed. leaving an
| opening, however, which enabled ST.
Martin 90 travel from city to city, both
| in Canada. and the United States, sub
| mitting himself as a most welcome
subject to the Investigations of emf
| nent physicians, for the purpose of in
vestiga ting the process of gastric di-
! gestion. He died an old man but few
years ago, fully forty years after he
received the wound
Since then, dogs and other animals
| are constantly operated on to make a
| hole in the stomach for the purpose OF
| physiological Investigations in regard
| to gastric digestion of various sub
! stances. Nor is it uncommon IN mod
| ern surgery to open the stomach in or
der to remove foreign substances, such
as false teeth, coins and other articles
which cannot be digested. In fact, the
| dime museum freaks who swallow
| nails, pocket-knives, etc, submit TO
| the operation at regular intervals in
order to clean out the organ and put
| it in condition to be filled again with
out fatal results. What We have most
| to fear is the effect of the shock upon
Mrs. Mckinley. in her enfeebled condi-
tion OF health.
'It is a curious fact that none OF the
| accounts received so far state with
which hand the would-be assassin fired
the shots, but we can infer from the
position Of the wounds, as given. that
the shots were fired with the right
hand, and the pistol. probably Of small
calibre, was concealed in a handker-
chief wound around the hand, If this
! is so, the handkerchief around the
hand extended as in act of shaking
hands, should at once have attracted
| the attention of the detectives standing
close to President McKipley at the
| time"