Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-09-12
NOT the SLIGHTEST DANGER.
Physicians Agree ttat Recovery Will Now
Be Rapid.

THE President has passed a very COM
Portable night" said the o'clock
morning bulletin of Drs. Rixey and
wasdin. the two physicians who re-
manned at the Presidents bedside
throughout the night.
A few minutes later DR.. RiXey, the
Presidents regular physician, was seen
by an Associated Press reporter. He
displayed no evidence of anxiety and
was emphatic in his denunciation of
the sensationally alarming reports put
in circulation in the early hours of the
morning as result of the bulletin
dated 1880 but not issued until about
midnight. The doctor was asked about
these reports and replied earnestly and
without hesitation:
Those statements are not true. The
President is not in serious condition
and there is no alarm felt over him.
The facts are just as stated in the reg
ular bulletins of the physicians. who
are anxious that the public shall be
fully acquainted with them
The scare caused by even the faint
est indica ton of trouble with the Pres
idents wound coming on the heels of
steady and continued improvement was
There is absolutely no reason. how
ever. to doubt the frankness of the
official statement of the physicians
that the opening of few stitches of
the wound Tuesday night. 1T cannot
give rise to other complications
DIR. Rixey. Wednesday morning. was
ilatfooted and emphatic in his insist
ence on the complete truth of this
I'll ho
was in no sense an operation. 1t was
more in the nature Of a redressing of
the wound. an antiseptic dressing to
allay the slight irritation that had APP
peared.
Between 1 A. M. and daylight when
one Of the nurses came out for a breath
Of air and stated that the President
was sleeping, there were no evidences
about the Milburn residence of the
least trace of excitement. Indeed. it
was more than usually quiet. The
lights were kept burning through the
night very low and no one appeared to
be stirring in that portion of the house
where Pres. Mckinley lies. No callers
appeared and no one emerged there
from.
Sec Cortelyou and Mr.. Milburn came
over to the press tent at | O'Clock 70
assure the newspaper men that there
was no occasion for alarm and the fact
that the wound in the Presidents alb
domen is not healing by first inten-
ton" is feature not at all unusual in
such cases, explained one of the physi-
clans.
On the contrary it is usual for gun
shot wounds to heal by what is termed
second intention" through granula-
tion. Especially is this the case with
older persons, when in the case of
young people they usually heal by
first Intentions"
There is absolutely no indication of
blood poisoning in the President 3
case, said the doctor when a news
paper man limited that the irritation
which had appeared at the exterior
wound might have partaken of that
nature. -,
'3As the morning advanced and the
usual activity of. the day began the
feeling of confidence began to grow
stronger. The day was bleak and
cherries. the sky being overcast with
promise of rain
The scene about the house was much
the same as for the past few days The
military patrol was shifted at o'clock
and the men who had patrolled during
the night gave place to fresh men.
AT $50 O'Clock the physicians began
arriving for the morning consultation
DIR. Minter was the first to appear fol.
lowed by DIR. Park. Dr. McBurney and
DR.. Mann. They had not been sent TO,
and came in accordance with the usua
understanding that consultation
would be held at $50 preparatory to the
o'clock bulletin.
The stay of the doctors was rattle,
longer than usual but this was to b,
expected after the course taken, Tues
day night. There was intense anxiet,
to learn the first announcement of tn,
morning as this was looked forward /,
as an index of the day.
The conference broke up at 9.15 an,
five minutes later DR.. Minter left tn,
house.
1t is all good news" said he. as h
reached the rope barrier where hal
hundred newspaper men were con
created
me action We took. Tuesday nigh
mas proved beneficial and 1 feel NOR
.onnoence in the Presidents recover,
,hah at any time since he was shot
everything is favorable and we hay,