New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-29
A SECOND OPERATION.
PRESIDENTS LEG LANCED
AGAIN.
THE BONE ExPOSED-EXPECTATI
BY PHYSICIANS OF A SPEEDY
RECOVERY
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Washington. Sept. 2s-President Roosevet's
temperature last night made il necessary 70
open the wound on his left leg to-day. Sur
geon General Rixey used small surgeons
knife to make the incision and cut down to the
bone 1t was a painful operation but the de-
sired effect of reducing the Presidents tenn
perature was accomplished II is a trife lower
tonight. and never has been dangerously high
After the incision was made the shin bone was
scraped the bruise was sponged and dressed
and the President then took up his eye glasses
and a book and began to read
At $50 D. m Secretary Cortelyou issued the
following bulletin:
Dr. Newton VI. shnner. OF New-York. Joined :
the Presidents physicians I'm consultations
this morning 10 o'clock
The increase in local symptoms and rise
In temperature rendered 1T necessary to
make fncision into small cavity. expos
Ing the bone. which found he slightly
affected Thorough drainage Is estab-
Ii.hed. and the physicians feel confident that
recovery will be uninterrupted.
The operation performed by Surgeon
consultation with Surgeon General o'Reiriy
and Drs. ShafYer. Urie and stitt
GEORGE B. CORTELYoU.
Secretary to the President.
Physicians cannot say whether it will bs
necessary to make another incision. The wound
will be kept open for while and the bone will
be treated. Every indication seems to be now
that granuation will set In promptly and that
a result of the operation to-day recovery
will be hastened. 1t is expected that the Presi-
dent will be taken out in a carriage within a.
few DAYS but no definite statement could be
obtained tonight that he will be able to review
the Grand Army parade which planned for
October g.
WATCHING TEMPERATURE CLOSELY.
His temperature is the main point to be-
watched in his condition An expert said this
evening that when the temperature is high in a
case of that kind it shows that there is mischief
working throughout the entire system The
President seemed perfectly well apart from the'
wounded leg. and talked and laughed ali day in
good humor. He sat in a rolling chair beside
Mrs Roosevelt for a time this afternoon, look
ing out the front window of the temporary
White House into Lafayette Square Attorney
General Knox was there him in the fore
noon. Two men nurses. one from the Army
Hospital ana one from the Marine Hospital,
have been detailed to care for the President as
long as their services necessary
The course or Presidents trouble, Accord.
ing to an expert has been this: First he received
brufse then a confusion then swelling. then in
har,mation (at this stage the operation with an
aspirator at Indianapolis was necessary; then
SYMPTOMS of slight abrasion Of the bone, IN
creased tension and fever These symptoms oe-
veloped yesterday. when. as intimated IN these
dispatches last night. there was fear tnat an
other operation would be necessary 6y ene
opening made in the wound the tension III M
hammation was relieved to-day by the natural
1ieH fol-
a..-ts,,ed how much serum cleared from
the vound It is explained tonight that there has
hosn n mistaken idea about the President nav
ing broken a blood vessel at Indianapolis AS
serum is only the water of blood ana only serum
or water was pumped from the wound 1t was
not possible that blood vessel could have been
broken
THE SURGEONS IN THE CASE
Dr Rixey has been much commended for the
manner in which he performed the operation
TODAY Assisting him were DR.. Newton NJ
shaner of New-York. for a long time one or the
Presidents family physicians: Surgeon General
O'Reilly of the army. who was called IN oy
courtesy: Dr. Lung. of the navy, who has had
the case in charge since the trolley accident
at Pittsheld. Mass; Dr. John F. Uric. OF the
navy and Dr. Stitt. of the navy Dr. Rfxey
and DR.. Lung decided yesterday to call these
experts into consultation The consultation was
held at the White House at 10 O'Clock this
morning The operation took only snort rin1e-
All agreed that the case was Satisfactory Dr..
Shaffer intends TO leave Washington tomorrow.
There is a mistaken idea that in case tho
President is able review the Grand Army
parade on October 8. as he hoped TO do.
there is to be reception by the President in the
evening II never planned to sfT1 a recep-
ton The President will continue to Sc mem
bers of the Cabinet from day TO day whenever
he desires to discuss any public questiors with
them. He is attending to good deal OF i'm,
portant business. but of course. must not be
bothered with small things Late tonight the
President was resting easy. and IL there has
been some alarm felt in the last forty-eight
hours every one feels relieved tonight IN fact
one of the secretaries said there was no cause
for any alarm II aScertained that tho
Presidents temperature was slightly lower thar.
IL was in the afternoon
PRESIDENTS FAMILY PLANS
Mrs. Roosevelt went to 81 Johns Church this
morning and remained with the President the $
rest of the day Ethel Roosevelt will come 70
Washington from Oyster Bay tomorrow She
will enter the Cathedral school on the outskirts
of the District as a boarding scholar.