The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-09-30
What Caused the Death Of President
MckinleY2

TO the Editor of The Post
Bryan, Texas, September 25.-Was 1t
wholly to the nature Of the wound? Might
death have been prevented under differ
cnt line of treatment?
1t may appear somewhat rash for
comparatively obscure physician at this
distance to call in question the wisdom
Of the distinguished physicians who at
tended President Mckinley; but gradu-
ated physician. having some valuable cz-
pcrience to his credit. having, moreover.
a brain to think with, aud habit Of
doing some thinking on his own account
may be allowed without apologies to any
body, to draw some deductions from ia 5
celebrated case as reported In me news.
papers.
week. bulletins were issued reporting the
temperature respiration and pulse pNAl.
Mmle the temperature record wa" never
above 1923 tho respiration was somV Times
as high as thirty and the pulse beat as
high as IA. Tlcrc was at all tunes, too,
great divergence between the degree OF
temperature registered aud the rale o. ne
pulse. An Increase of ten pulse oeals
usually Indicates Il rise of one degree OF
temperature. pulse beat OF rs l4i
should therefore Indicate Temperatures or
1859 10 lU5.i ihc president temporal
turc was never above 1919; his pulse beat
should never have been above IL; hut on
the very days when IT was repeatedly Sald
The president is responding wen To- NEIL
cation his condition is satisfactory; the
tcmprlature is steady not an nlayoraple
symptom, the temperature was 10, WINE
the pulse beat sounded steady alarm AT
100 TO ia TO the minute. On the luth,
the very day that 1t was SO confidently
asserted 'the president is out of DANGER
mis- temperature had gone down to zoos
while his pulse beat mad ran up TO la.
What meant this great divergence OF lack
of correspondence between The tempcra-
lure and the pulse rutet WHAT meant the
rapid breathing from six to twelve rrspi-
rations per minute above normaf 1lc
lowering of tempcrHturc without CORE
sp"nding decrenSr i'm the mise rate ana
respiration Is always an un.uyorublc symp.
tom. Accompaniei. ON rhc other hand. by
am increase OF pulse rate and respiration.
1T forbodes danger The lowering tenpcra-
lure. uudsr sucn accompanying ruudi ilns,
meant loss of vitality The Increase Of
pul4c beais ana respiratory efforts simply
meant a frantic effort of nature To repair
the loss. Tho loss ot vitality indicated a de.
ncieucy of iron. the oxygen carrier OF the
circulation to produce lie combustion NEG.
essary 10 support the vital function.
IL is well known to nil studcAts Of
physloloey that Wilton, iron In The circu.
iltlon there can he no oNy.sgpa.ion o. the
tissue and nou-oXygeuIzra tissue must die.
The red disks Of the blood carry the
oxygen Ia the farthes, eNrrrmltirs Of tnr
body, purify swcctcu and save the It's
sues Iron is necessary to the mani. acture
OF the red disks
N is said tDat nj every rcsnira ion
twenty thousand l2UWO of those r'l d SKIS
are DESTROYED Norman rc-pirnt ON tn,u
destroys 80. GOO Dor minute. Thiak Of the
enormous abstraction of these oXvlol car
rieis going on i'm the case of a nc.s5n
breathing from twenty foul. To- thirty time,
per minutci
such was the case Of our great and good
and greatly lameuted president The rapl.l
breathing ana rapid puisatlon was a cnll
Tor oxygen 1t is true that in the act
of breathing oxygen was taken iurn In,
lou ID.