Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-09-08


sion OF the operation that the President had
stood 1t well, with pulse of good quality,
rate 100, and that his condition was grail
flying. Upon reviving from the effect Of the
Observation-Disclosures had been admin
istered, the President expressed a wish to
be removed to the residence Of Mr.. John
G. Milburn. president Of the Pan-Amerlcan
exposition, whose guest he was in Buffalo,
and at 1925 pm. he was removed there from
the hospital in motor ambulance.
The Story Of the Bulletins.
At 1850 pm. the following bulletin was
issued by Secretary Cortelyou:
THE President is rallying satisfactorily
Temperature, 1904: pulse, 1924; respiration,
"a. Up. M. RIxEY,
IN. B. MANN.
''R. E. PARKE.
III. MYNTER.
EUGENE WASBIN."
Other bulletins issued indicating the con-
lows:
September IL a.m.-Pulse, 124: temper
allure, 1904; respiration, "a.
3 am.-Pulse, ITO; temperature, 1O16;
respiration, "a.
piration, "a
a.m.-Pulse, LAG: temperature, 1O2: res
piration, "a.
IL m.-Pulse, 1876; temperature, 1O2; res
piration, o.
$3.50 p.m.-Pulse, 140; temperature, 1922;
respiration, "a.
pm.-Pulse, 1870; temperature, 1925:
respiration. %.
pm.-Pulse, 1872; temperature. 1925;
respiration. 25.
September $500 a.m--Pulse, 122; tenn
perature, 1924; respiration, %.
9 am.-Pulse, 132; temperature, 1928:
respiration "a.
IL m.-Pulse, 12S: temperature. 101.
Half an hour previous to the 8 o'clock
bulletin the wound was dressed and found
to be in a very satisfactory condition. He
slept several hours during the night, and
his slumber was reposeful.
President Garaeld's Case.
President James A. Garfield was shot at
9:3O am. July 2. 1881. in the ladies' waiting
room Of the Pennsylvania depot, this city.
while walking arm In arm with James G..
Blaine. Like President Mckinley. he re-
ceived two bullets; the first in the right
arm just below the shoulder, causing a
second and fatal one in the back just above
the right hip and near the kidney. He was
taken first to a private room In the depot
and thence removed to the White House.
He was starting on a trip through New
England, and was to meet Mrs. Garfield
and some members Of his cabinet at Jersey
City when he was shot down.
Surgeons hastily called probed for the
A. NJ NIT o,, bud
nounced that its course had been downward
and forward into the groin. and while
serious, was not likely to be fatal. Presi-
dent Garfield's recovery from the shock Of
the wounds was very gradual. Later at
tempts to find the bullet failed. There
were no immediate signs of internal hemor-
rhage, and there was little external bleed
ing.
Bad Symptoms Develop.
These symptoms developed during the
afternoon, however, accompanied by vom-
iting. Sunday, July 3, he was better, and
the surgeons hopes were high, but at night
serious Inflammation set in and the case
looked so desperate that Vice President
Arthur was told to await a summons to
take the oath of office as President Gar
fields successor. BY noon Of Monday the
doctors had relieved the pain. but the pa
tient lowered between life and death.
Tuesday and Wednesday were compare
lively comfortable days, but the fear Of
blood poisoning was ever present. From
the rise of the surgical fever, July 3, to
July 6, the variations of pulse were from
90 to 1873; of temperature, from $50 to
1919 and of respiration, from 10 to "a.
Pus Makes It's Appearance.
On Friday pus-which the physicians said
showed that the wound was healing-was
seen f..
Ten days after the shooting the patient s
temperature reached the highest point
1923. The doctors all this time believed
that the bullet had passed between the
eleventh and twelfth ribs, through the
liver, and to the abnominal cavity, where
they said it had lodged In the anterior wall
Of the abdomen, from which they expected
to be able to remove 1t readily, in due time,
without danger.
PeritOnitis mt Last Announced
1t was only learned by the public on July
ID that the President had "circumscribed
peritonitis." and that he had had 1t since
the second day OF his Illness This circum-
scribed peritonitis was defined by tender
ness in the abdomen and 1t was believed by
Il.
They thought that the tenderness due to
the peritonitis marked where the bullet had
found lodgment. but little lump there
which they thought was the bullet they
concluded after the autopsy must have
been hard pus at the end OF canal which
it had bored for itself from point near the
beginning of the bullet wound. The pus
worked forward. while the bullet had gone
sidewise across the back; but II was many
weeks before this was learned.
There had been at least two occasions OF
serious relapse In the latter part of July.
and at length DR.. Agnew made an incision.
Explorations were made along the pus ca
nal. the supposed course OF the bullet.
where there was channel several inches
deep. but the results were not satisfactory.
Improvement and relapse continued
through August. and on September the
President was removed from the White
House to Elberon. his case then being
really hopeless. Three thousand Eve hun-