The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-09
NO SIGN OF PERITONITIs.
Chances for the Presidents Recovery
Improved Yesterday.

tndnCeS IOr tne heCONeFy
Improved Yesterday.
BUFFALO, Sept. S.-Through this quiet
peaceful Sabbath every word that came
from the big vine-clad house in Delaware
| avenue in which the stricken chief mag
istrate of the Nation lies battling for life,
was reassuring, and tonight the chances of
his recovery are so greatly improved that
all OF those who keep the patient vigil at
his bedside feel strongly that his life will
be spared.
The developments of last night and to-
| day were dreaded. but hour after hour
passed. and the distinguished patient,
struggling there beneath the watchful eyes
of physicians and trained nurses, showed
not an unfavorabIe symptom. Five times
during the day the eminent doctors and
each time the verdict was unanimous that
what change had occurred was for the bet
ter. Not the slightest premonitory symp-
| tom of peritonitis appeared, and the fresh
| hope born with the morning grew stronger
| and stronger as the day advanced, until
| toward evening the confidence expressed in
the Presidents recovery seemed almost too
sanguine.
DR.. Charles McBurney. the famous New
York surgeon, who had been summoned in
consultation, after a thorough examina-
ton, in which he said he found not a single
unfavorable symptom, Joined in the last
afternoon bulletin, which declared that the
all the physicians present. 1t is not strange.
| therefore, that the Vice President the
members of the Cabinet and other distin-
guished visitors who called came away
with lighter hearts and buoyant tread, and
gave expression to the most optimistic SEN
| timents
PUBLIC INTEREST.
The encourag ging news spread over the
! exposition city with great rapidity and
| thousands came in carriages in street
| cars and a foot, to learn for themselves
| about the Milburn house. The brightness
| OF the day with its cool. bracing atmos-
phere, only added to the general cheer
fulness and when score of newsboys
darted into the crowd about o'clock
shouting. Extra! The President will live,"
it was with difficulty that they could sup
| he Of olxS0 0ixyt., +Hot
in their throats. And the newspaper men.
many of whom have been at their posts for
| forty-eight hours continuously. remained
steadfastiy throughout the day in the
| little white walled tents across the street
from the house where the country's patient
| lay and flashed the news over land and sea-
President is by no means out of danger
| Not one of his physicians; not one of his
| advisers who is admitted to the inner
| councils, has the temerity to go so far as
to declare that he is. But IL he continues to
improve for one more day the danger OF
peritonitis, which is most dreaded will have
| practically disappeared.
Yesterday one of the doctors thought
| forty-eight hours would be the limit OF the
danger from that source. but his more con-
servative colleagues believe at least
twenty-four hours, possibly thirty-six,
from this time, must elapse before the
possibility of peritonitis shall have van
ished. That disposed Of. still other compli-
cations may arise. Blood poisoning might
set in or an abscess form where the bullet
is imbedded in the muscles of the back.
X RAYS NOT YET USED.
Thus far the ball of the assassin. which
is still in the body, gives the physicians
no anxiety. But If the slightest infamma-
| ton appears in the region of the lead it
will be Immediately extracted. No diff
| Guilty Is anticipated in this regard One
of Edisons best X-ray machines and his
most skilful and trusted operator. Dr. H
A. Knolls, arrived to-day. The batteries
were charged and the machine is ready for
instant use. With it. the physicians say
there is not the slightest doubt that the
ball can be located perfectly for an op-
GRAFTON. They do not deem 1t advisabl
to sap any of the Presidents strength at
| this time. All his reserve force is needed
now TO resist the danger OF peritonitis
and septic poisoning Besides. il inhamma-
tion does not set in around the bullet il
will soon become encysted.
All the effects of the ether which was
administered when the operation was per-
| formed on the exposition grounds had dis
appeared this morning and the Presidents
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