Evening journal., 1901-09-13
PRESIDENT NOW
FACES A CRISIS
lcontInued From FIrgt Pagel.


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 a serious char
acter. The food given TO the Presi-
dent yesterday morning has not been
properly aesimilated 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 buk
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 vii
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
doctors held their evening consulta.
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
Rixey remained in the sick room
throughout the night, and those who
left after the early evening consulta-
ton, 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, a local gen.
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
I with which a physician and not a sur.
J geon would have to deal. Secretaries
Wilson and Hitchcock, who were at
the Milburn residence until II o'clock
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
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 difficulty occa
stoned by the failure Of the organs o
a digestion and assimilation. The non
success of the treatment added to thu
depression that existed, but just a
midnight the relief so much desired
came. This gave great encouragement
: and changed the character of the bul
: letin which the physicians were ever
. then preparing. In it they announced
that all the unfavorable symptoms haI
e improved since the last bulletin. Th'
= decreased rapidity of the pulse from
e 12S to 12O, which followed, was als'
= exceedingly gratifying.
Abner Mckinley, Colonel Brown, hi
r business partner, and Lieutenan
j. James Mckinley, the PRESIDENT
nephew, remained at the house during
. the anxious hours of the evening
Lieutenant Mckinley only rached tn
city yesterday from California, wher
he is stationed. After the gratifying
g intelligence in the midnight bulletii
was conveyed to them they immediate
A ly left the house for the night an
, went to their hotel.
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