The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-13

| delivered to the members of the nress nv,
| Secretary Cortelyou, and the fra6l,pass
with which the physicians announced that
the presidents condition was not GOOD
| dlsquieting as 1T was. was a relief n
! was felt that nothing was being con-
! cealed.
FIT OF INDIGESTION.
II was explained semi-officially to the
associated Pres that the trouble which
u ,1,ls't was due to the fact that the food
/ when the president had taken this morn
ing mad not agreed with him. The rice
IN MS pulse was attributed to that fact II
! was stated quite positively that the con.
Sutihs physicians considered tat the
Iaiiure 10 digest the food was NOT dine RI
| the condition of the wounds in the side M
the stomach, which were believed to he
PractlcaIly healed and so pronounced by
Dl' Mcburney and his assistants. The
- liat the 1000 would not agree witt
Che pauent could not have been antici
/ pated, so it was stated hut a,
| soon as it was found that il
nad not, the administration of food bx
the mouth was discontinued The nrob
lem which now confronts the physician,
Is TO dispose of this undigested food in
| the slomach DR.. Mann, who is consid
| Sieu the cnlef surgeon in the absence OF
VI. McBurney, is confident that the I'M
| dlgested food will pass away during tbt
! night and that the president will be bet
| ter IN the morning The fatigue of TN.
president noted in the afternoon bulIetir
| continued during the evening. and sew
eral times the president murmured. %.
am so tired; 1 am so tired"
! CASE FOR A PHYSICIAN.
DR.. Charles D. Stockton, who has a
| fine reputation as general practitioner
| here, was called in at the evening confer
! enee. The problem is now one for the
! physicians rather than for the surgeons
ana the advice and counsel of Dr. Stock
| ton was considered advisable
After the bulletin was issued two of the
physicians slipped away through the side
entrance, thus escaping the newspaper
| men, 1t was understood that DR. Mann
and DR.. Stockton remained at the Mil
! burn house
Secretaries Wilson and Hitchcock
| reached the Milburn house at $3.50 o'clock
| They seemed anxious for personal assIr-
| ances as to the condition of the presi-
dent, and when they left their carriages
| hurried into the house. The spirits of the
| little coterie which Secretaries Hitchcock
! and Wilson Joined in the drawing room
of the Milburn house were visibly de-
! pressed, although the assurances of DR.
I Mann that the presidents condition
| would be better in the morning did some
/
| they could not conceal
RELIEF AT LAST.
Doctors Wasdin, Stockton and Rixey re-
NAMED at the Milburn house during the
night and were constantly in the room
! of the president. For hours the president
| failed to respond to the treatment to
which he was subjected to relieve him OF
! the disturbance caused by the failure of
] digestion and assimilation The long pro
cess of the treatment added to the depres-
/ sion that existed, but just at midnight
1 the relief so desired came. He had two
operations of the bowels within a few
minutes. This gave great encourag cement
| and changed the character of the bulletin
which the physicians were then writing.
In it they announced that all the I'M
| favorable symptoms had improved since
the last bulletin.
The decreased rapidity of the pulse
from 128 to 12O which followed the bowel
movement was also highly gratifying.
The physicians were really alarmed
| about the presidents heart The action
| of the bowels was produced by the ad-
ministration of calomel and oil.
Abner Mckinley, Col. Brown, his bust
ness partner, and Lieut.. James Mckinley,
! the presidents nephew, remained at the
house during the anxious hours of the
! evening. Lieut.. Mckinley only today
reached the city from California, where
! he is stationed. After the gratifying In
! telligence in the midnight bulletin was
! conveyed to them they Immediately left
! the house for the night and went to their
! hotel. Secretary Cortelyou announced az
ter the bulletin had been issued that he
! did not look for any further public state
ment from the physicians during the
night nor the regular o'clock bulletin In
| the morning.
| the Milburn house when Secretary Cor
| telyou brought out the midnight bulletin
| was impressive A hundred newspaper
men keyed up to a high tension and
| twice that number of anxious watchers
/ who had been alarmed by the $3.50 bulle-
tin posted everywhere throughout the
| city were gathered under the gaslight in
/ front of the white tents erected for the
accommodation of the newspaper men.
| Above the suppressed tones of the watch
| ers the only sound was the click of the
! telegraph instruments inside. Out OF the
! gloom into the circle of light came the
! presidents secretary accompanied by Mr..
| Miburn The secretary was Immediately
! surrounded. He distributed words of en-
enlargement with the little typewriter
| slips on which the bulletin was issued.
GOOD NEWS.
.'The president has responded to medl-
| cal treatment and is better, he said.
| sHThe doctors administered calomel and
oil and they proved effective. He is rest
| ing nicely now and the feeling is better
| The cheering news broke the tension of
| a half nights anxious vigil. After dis
| tributing the bulletin Secretary Cortelyou
| and Mr. MiIburn walked away to get a
! breath of air and relief from the intense
! strain of the evening.
| After less than a half hours walk Sec
| rotary Cortelyou and Mr.. Milburn re-
/ turned to the house Soon after, the
| lights in the lower part of the house,
! which shortly before were burning
| brightly. were put out, except in the
| drawing room, which for the time being
! is used by Mr.. Cortelyou for official pur-
| poses In the chamber occupied by Pres
! ident Mckinley the lights were burning
! dirnIv. Mr. Cortelyou came out for
| moment shortly before and said there
was no change in the presidents condi-
| tion since the last bulletin.
| At PAS a. m. Abner Mckinley, brother
! of the president, was called to the house
! He came by carriage and pressed into
/ the house at once. A messenger was dis
! matched at the same time to summon two
! absent nurses The, impression is created
| that the president has taken serious
| turn for the worse. but an expression
! from those within the house was unob-
| tainable.
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