Evening journal., 1901-09-13
PRESIDENT NOW
FACES A CRISIS
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it caused was exaggerated, but that
genuine apprehension existed there
can be no question. Today will prob.
ably show whether the complication
that has arisen is of serious char
acter. The food given to the Presi-
dent yesterday morning has not been
properly assimilated and passed, and
the administration of food by the
mouth has been discontinued. The
President continued to complain OF
the fatigue, noted by the Official buL
letin in the afternoon.
One of the consulting physicians
said that, judged by medical records,
his pulse should be 90. The accelera-
tion of the pulse was attributed partly
to the revulsion of the stomach against
the food, and DR.. Mann positively as
sured Secretaries Hitchcock and VIII
son, the Presidents brother, Abner
Mckinley, and others assembled below
stairs in the Milburn house last night
that the undigested food would proba-
bly, pass away by this morning. The
tion earlier than usual, and they very
frankly announced in their official bull
letin at $50 that the Presidents con-
dition was not good. They are stand
ing firmly by their resolution and
promise to keep the public fully ad-
vised of the true state Of affairs in the
sick room. Drs. Wasdin, Stockton and
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throughout the night, and those who
left after the early evening consulta-
tion, contrary to their usual custom,
slipped away to the side entrance. This
in itself was considered significant, to
say the least, by the little army Of
newspaper men. Heretofore they have
not failed to give verbal Interpretation
of the official bulletins to the news
paper men. DR.. Stockton, local gem
eral practitioner, with a high reputa.
tion, was called In for the first time
last night, it being explained that the
complication that had arisen was one
with which a physician and not sur
geon would have to deal. Secretaries
Wilson and Hitchcock, who were at
|
said when they departed that there
was no cause for alarm, that the trOu-
BILE was in the stomach and not in the
wounds, and they believed that the
! Presidents condition would be I'M
proved greatly by today.
Drs. Wasdin, Rixey and Stockton re-
mained at the Milburn house during
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room of the President. For hours the
President failed to respond to the
treatment to which he was subjected
to relieve him Of the difficulty occa
| stoned by the failure of the organs OF
digestion and assimilation. The non
success of the treatment added to the
| depression that existed, but just al
midnight the relief so much desired
came. This gave great encouragement
and changed the character of the bul
letin which the physicians were even
then preparing. in it they announced
that all the unfavorable symptoms had
) improved since the last bulletin. The
decreased rapidity of the pulse from
y 12S to 120, which followed, was also
exceedingly gratifying.
Abner Mckinley, Colonel Brown, his
! business partner, and Lieutenant
o. James Mckinley, the Presidents
nephew, remained at the house during
, the anxious hours of the evening
Lieutenant Mckinley only rached the
city yesterday from California, where
he is stationed. After the gratifying
&, intelligence in the midnight bulletin
was conveyed to them they immediate
( ly left the house for the night and
B went to their hotel.