El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-21

DISSOLUTION without the hnOWleuSt
of Himself or Any Casual Observer
Eyesight Not to BE Depended Upon
= private letter from Mexico City
published exclusively in The Herald
and Ell Progresista that
President Diaz's malady had been de-
fined as 'atheroma."
This conclusion was reached by the
best physicians of the capital after a
consultation had been held.
For some time past the reports from
Mexico City relative to the presidents
condition lave conlicted TO a remark
able degree and it was evident that
some one had wilfully misrepresented
the facts or had been misled.
The announcement that the president
is a sufferer from atheroma explains
it all and clears up the mystery.
Dispatches have that the
presidents end was not far off. The
following day a well known and per-
fectly reliable man who visited the
president telegraphed to parties in this
city that Diaz. so far as the eye could
discern. was in an excellent physical
O~condition.
1t was impossible to reconcile such
conflicting reports until it became
known that the greatest of all Mexi-
cans had fallen q victim to atheroma.
The conflicting reports from reliable
sources could then be explained in an
instant For an atheroma patient may
he close to death and yet outwardIy
appear TO be in perfect health.
AtherOma is akin to govt and is a
disease of the arteries. A man afiict-
ed with govt is generally fat and
rosy. and to the eye. of the observer
is enjoying the most perfect health.
Just so with atheroma. 1t is a dis
ease to which elderly people and those
sTho have led a very active life are sub
ject. 1t takes hold of the arteries
throughout the system and they hard
en- and become like pipe stems or
pieces of dry macaroni. the small ar
tories of the brain threatening to snap
at n producing death.
FL Paso Physicians Definition.
\ prominent practitioner of this city
in describing to a Herald reporter the |
effects of atheroma said:
When a man is afflicted with
atheroma his arteries become coated
with deposits of calcareous matter and
are as brittle as pipe stems or sticks
of macaroni. Old persons. especially
Afhose who have lived a high life and
been subject to the govt. are the |
most likely TO fall victims to the dis
ease. |
One OF the most noted men to die
fro mthe effects of atheroma was DR..
William Pepper. the famous P%hiladel- |
phian, chancellor of the Univ. of PENN
~syIvania. who expired in California |
n0t. SO long ago.
The disease is chronic in its ma
ture and the patient may die suddenly |
or linger for years. 1t is usually ac-
companied by complications of some
kind and there may be physical pain or
there may not be.
The disease frequently affects the
mSntal condition of the patient. Pare
sis is often produced by it and fire.
quently hemorrhage.
The Symptoms.
The symptoms cannot be detected
by mere observation for a man may
appear healthy and yet be in the last
STAGES of atheroma. A critical exami-
nation of the atheroma patient by a
skilled physician reveals that his ar
teries feel brittle like pipe stems, and
even the pulse feels hard or like a
stick of macaroni.
Insomnia is one symptom of the
disease and sometimes it is ACCOMPANY
led by pains in the side and govt
twinges.
To look at an atheroma patient you
could not tell that he had anything
Whatever the matter WITH MIN. al
though his condition at that very mo-
ment might he critical and he not be
aware of it himself. His appearance
.D9ght even then indicate that he was
in perfect health.
When death comes to the atheroma
patient it is often directly due to the
swapping of the brittle arteries of the
brain and is quick.
When once the patient begins to
break down and have brain symptoms
or delirium his end cannot be far off.
Death would at the most result with.
in one year after the first attack of
paralysis or apoplexy.'
Diaz Apparently Not Ill.
L.. ). Stewart, cashier of the First
National bank, returned Tuesday from
a pleasure trip into Mexico.
Mr.. Stewart and his party. consist
ing of Mrs. Stewart, Mr.. and Miss Ray
nolds. and Miss Beattie. were absent
about two weeks and during their visit
to the republic stopped for a few days
at. where President DiaZ
has been sojourning for sometime.
A reporter for The Herald called on
Mr.. Stewart and asked him for an ex-
preston of opinion as to the reported
ill-health of the president He said:
There is not a word of truth in the
statements that have been published
While in Cuernavaca | saw president
driving with member of his staff
and some ladies as late as Z O'Clock In