The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-16

pVciHileilL nOSplCal at lne eXpO5ltlOH REPORT CAUSES COMMENT. The report caused a good deal of comment in Buffalo Saturday night. Il IS remembered by nearly everybody
 that the consulting physicians more than once announced that there were
 no signs of blood poisoning. Blood was taken from one of the presidents ears
 and microscopical reading of 1t, it
 was announced in an official bulletin failed to reveal the presence of blood
 poisoning. The autopsy seems to show
 that it was blood poisoning around the bullet holes, and nothing else, which
 caused death. It was reported Satur-
 day night that the various diagnoses of
 the presidents condition are sure to
 come up for acrimonious discussion in
 medical circles. No Buffalo physician
 has had the temerity as yet to assert
 that the presidents life under any cir
 cumstances could have been saved, but
 there are many physicians who are sur
 prised that no traces of blood poison- ing were detected until the autopsy
 was performed.
 When Dr. Herman Mynter one of the consulting physicians, was seen to- night by reporter and asked for a statement, he said:
 The operation performed by Dr. Mann, from a surgical point of view, was perfect. The wounds in both walls of the stomach were perfectly closed by the sutures. The wound in the kidneys was slight, simply carrying away very small piece from the upper part of the organ, and in itself did not con- tribute materially to the final result It was the gangrene which developed all along the track of the bullet that caused MT. McKinley's .deathI This condition had developed to an amazing extent in the week since the wound was inflicted. The stomach was so badly affected by gangrene that if the presi- dent had lived until tomorrow the walls of the organ would have been perforated in several places.
 Were there no outward indications at any time during MT. McKinley's ill., ness of the gangrenous condition?" asked the reporter,
 That is a mater about which I must be silent" replied Dr. Mynter. we have agreed not to talk about that at present"
 Dr. Mynter reaf1lrmed the declaration that nothing could have been done to save the presidents life. He added that cultures had been taken from dif- ferent spots along the track of the bull let, and that an examination of these would be made to ascertain the nature of the poisonous germs.
 It developed that Dr. Wasdin, one of the consulting physicians and an ex- pert of high standing in the marine hos pital service, strongly supported the view that the murderous bullet had been poisoned, and that this was one of the moving causes of the gan- grenous condition. The area of this dead and grangrened flesh was a source of much surprise to the sur geons, reaching circumference about the size of a silver dollar about the in- ternal wounds.
 Dr. Matthew D. Mann, the surgeon on whom fell the responsibility of op- arating on the president immediately after he was shot, in the course of a ,ursory talk, said:
 First of all, there was never any con- tention or unseemly discussion among the physicians as to the method of l treatment of case similar to the pres ,nt one in importance. In no case was here ever a better understanding as 70 what should be- done. We worked | ogether as one man. There were hon ,st differences of opinion sometimes | .mong US as to which was the better node of procedure under certain condi- ions, but the minority were always | 
 About the criticisms that were made IS to the insuff1ciency of the original xauination and the failure to locate he bullet at the time of operation, { were they justified?"
 THE BULLET NOT FOUND.
 q think the report made to-day" Dr. Mann replied, "is sufficient an- 1ra,. to 1rpI,r r,,ectiOn If cboUcs Itpr1r