The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1902-07-03
EDWARD Is BETTER.
SURGEONS REPORT KINGS CON.
DITlON FAVORABLE.

DITloN FAVORABLE.
Patient Able to Eat and Smoke and Is
Making Satisfactory PrOgress-Medi-
cal Advisors Say Monarch Is Dis
playing Great Recuperative Power.
King Edwards condition was reported
to be much improved Sunday, he was
thought TO have safely passed the crisis
and there was 4 wide assumption that
nothing was TO be expected henceforth
but announcements of an uninterrupted
return to strength. The Queen was cheer
full and hopeful and continued to display
most devoted solicitude She was in the
sick room the greater part OF the day.
The King is able TO take plenty of nour-
ishment. So confident are all now Of the
Kings complete and early recovery that
it has been informally settled that when
the time arrives the royal patient viii
be carefully removed to Cowes and placed
on board the royal yacht.
Sir Henry Thompson said the King s
only danger to be feared. in his opinion,
was the possibility OF cellular or other
tissues in the region of the wound becom-
ing affected. but from what other medi-
cal men said, the steady improvement in
his majesty's condition was attributable
to the fact that he had been able to main
tain his strength. If the King continued
to hold his own in this respect his recov-
cry was assured.
His recent habits are in his favor. for
it is a fact, although not known 10 many
outside of the royal household, that the
King is, and has been for a long time,
most abstemious as to his diet. Indeed,
this is made necessary by the fact that
he is troubled with diabetes and is under
a diabetic regime. As this is q progress
sive complaint. and regarded by many
physicians as virtually incurable, it Is
easy TO understand that the King had
strong personal reasons for wishing to ba
crowned at this time. 1t is also easy td
why Queen Alexandra. now
feeling most sanguine Of her husbands
recovery. has suggested a quiet coronation
in Westminster Abbey as soon as he is
part of August or September.
OF course. the magnificent coronation.
which was TO have been the most splen-
did spectacle of the modern world. has
vanished forever. No attempt will ba
made TO have great celebration. for
King Edward will not be able for many
TO endure any trying ordeal.
The Kings Sickness.
Seldom before in so striking 4 manner
has the uncertainty of human events been
so forcibly expressed as when, with all
London filled with guests-with rulers
and royalties and embassies assembled
from the four corners Of the earth to wit.
ness the coronation of King Edward
that august and impressive function waA
owing to the sickness Of the
King.
The announcement struck CONSERVATION
and dismay into the heart of the great
At first il could hardly bd
credited. And then as confirmation Of
It was made and the knowledge was OBJ
tanned that the King had to submit 10
an operation. gloom and sorrow took the
place of sprightliness and rejoicing. An
air of depression settled upon the city.
Crowds gathered in hushed tones about
he bulletin boards. to learn the latest of
he royal patients condition, and every
where there were manifest the outward
'igns of deep public sorrow. The scenes
we're similar to those which marked the
passing away of Victoria, for since Lis
and particularly since the hap
" ending of the Boer war King Edward
las been sensibly growing in popular
strength and favor.
The Kings sickness is what is known
Is perityphlitis. 1t is an Inflammation,
the formation Of an abscess
4 the tissues around the vermiform
ppendix and in the popular mind is not
eadily distinguished from appendicitis.
/ week previous the trouble manifested
tself. but under treatment the King
eemed TO recover rapidly and on Satur-
ay his condition was such that his ply
icians believed he would be able TO so
through the ceremony Of coronation. The
rouble, however, became aggravated and
tuesday his physicians decided upon the
peration. The King was placed under
he influence of chloroform and the op-
ration was successfully carried out. The
bscess, which had formed, was removed.
AS for London. the people were dazed.
They had just thrown off, as it were,
heir mourning garments for the death
( the Queen and had plunged into the
oyful anticipations Of the coronation fes- |
ivities when with stunning suddenness
heir joy was turned into sorrow and |
urning anxiety. In all the churches |
rayers have been offered up for the re-
overy of the royal patient and in the |
anks of high and low there is n gnaw-
ng sorrow for their ruler and King.
disappointment and Sympathy.
London had a million foreigners with |
n her gates for the celebration and four
hreshold from the United Kingdom. |
-hese, with her own six millions. were
realty disappointed over the postpone
lent. Not only We're those who were TO
'itness the splendOrs incidental TO the
but the great world beyond 1
1ere moved to sympathy for the mon
rch who had borne himself So modestly
ince being entrusted with the imperial
ceptre of power.
A London correspondent says that
hose who have watched closely the King
nce his mothers death have not failed
, no. Z that the great responsibilities of
lie position were going hard against him.
he bright eye. the ruddy glow of the
heck, the vigorous hand clasp, the quick
ned step. the cordial greeting which dis
nguished him as the Prince of Wales
egan to lessen under the exactions OF
ingship. He did everything TO conceal
he inroads upon his health, but it was
rident to those around him that unless
iere came 4 change his reign would be
short one. He worried greatly over the
oer war. as his mother had done. and
$ termination was too long delayed TO
Ave him from the consequences of his
ltense anxiety while it was in progress.
hen the anXieties of the coronation Were
ided TO make mind and body sick and
,nder life miserable.
Riots Over Abandoned Feasts.