The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-10
THANKFUL TO
 HIS MAKER Leo RejOiceS in Strength
 to Pray. CONDITION IS UNCHANGED News of ValgOni'S Death Withheld from POntiff. pr. Mazzoni Denies That He Has Again Punctured the Pleura for the Removal of Liquid
 Matter.
CONDITION IS UNCHANGED

Rome, July 1O-(6 a. m.)-It is reported that when shortly after sunrise this morning pr. Lapponi went to see the Pope he found him with his hands to- doctors inquiring whether he required anything His Holiness replied:
 Today finishes week since I was taken sick. l am thanking God for hav- ing given me strength still to pray to Him.
 Rome, July 1O.-4 a. m.)-The injections given first by pr. Mazzoni and then by pr. Lapponi, have had in part she desired effect as the Pope has succeeded in get ting some sleep. althouh his slumber was not entirely tranquil. The patients diet has been somewhat frightened since the attack of diarrhoa and is now limited mainly to meat broth and beef tea.
 Rome July 10-(2 a. m.)-Another day of alternate hopes and fears has passed and Pope Leo's life still hangs in the balance. Beginning with renewed hopes the day closed with the scales turning slowly, but surely downwards. How long this agonizing period of suspense will last not even the attending doctors dare to say.
 No night bulletin was issued, but at 12:15 o'clock this morning it was learned from Dr. Mazzoni that the condition of the pontiff had not changed since the issuance of the evening bulletin.
 At 7:3O o'clock last night Dr. Lapponi declared his fear that here was no hope but that death might not come during the night At midnight a report coming from the Vatican itself gained circulation that pr. Mazzoni had again operated on the Pope and extracted serum which had again gathered in the pleural cavity. The surgeon was found at his home at 1:SO o'clock this morning and although ex- tremely tired. Dr. Mazzoni said:
 Tt is untrue that a new operation has been performed. l was with the Pope from Il D. m. until after midnight and found his general condition stationary, no change having taken place since this afternoon when the consu. tation with Dr. Rossoni was held. To strengthen the patients heart and to help the circula- tion of the blood, injected camphor and caffeine, after which the Pope, who seemed somewhat relieved. said he re- membered having been treated on cam phor basis when he was nuncio at Brus- seis sixty years ago.
 In reply to a question pr. Mazzoni re- piled:
 T really cannot say whether the serum in the pleural cavity has increased since the consultation this afternoon, as did not examine his holiness for such pur- pose It must be understood that the iz frof fn he ha al ka people Besides his thorax, through old age, has became bent in such a way that the right side where pneumonia was first detected, curves out in pronounced man. ner, while the left side curves in.
 In tomorrow's visit attention will be di rected especially on the progress in the secretion of serum. Then a decision will be taken as to whether 0 new operation is necessary"
 Mazzoni Ridicules Criticisms.
 pr. Mazzoni ended by ridiculing the criticisms. objections and advice which he said. people most of whom are famous only for never having been heard of, al- lowed themselves to advance. Many of these persons had seen the Pope only in photographs.
 'The greatest accusation is that pleu- risy was not discovered in time. visited the Pope for the first time Sunday. On Monday evening I discovered the fluid
 
 Uf medicine knows that sometimes weeks pass by before the presence of serum Is detected. I myself once had pleurisy which the doctors did not discover until fifteen days after l was taken sick"
 The condition of Pope Leo at times yes terday morning seemed so favorable that the hopeful Dr. Mazzoni and the more conservative Lapponi united in express ing the belief that there was some slight prospect of recovery. but within a few hours these brighter prospects dsap- peared before the most alarming conclu- sions reached after the lengthy consulta- ton of the doctors. The earlier hopes had been inspired largely by the pom tiff's outward evidence of ygor. as he was able to rise, walk and command all his faculties. but the later consultation disclosed that these outward evidences of strength were entirely deceptive as the real danger consisted in the gradual in- ternal progress of the insidious diseases.
 Gloomy Forebodings.
 The mere fact of the consultation in itself gave rise to the glomiest forebod- ings. Indeed, this was the first actual consultation as the previous frequent meetings of the doctors were not regard ed as formal consultations. Yesterday, however, Dr. Rossoni. a specialist of the Baccelli school, was called into consulta- tion lasting over two hours. Every phase of the patients case was mlnutely gone over. The conclusions announced in the 7:S0 o'clock bulletin showed that liquid was again rapidly gathering in the pleural cavity. and that the Popes general con dition was grave.
 Following the issuance of this bulletin, the doctors freely expressed their per sonal convictions regarding the extreme gravity of the case Dr. Lapponi said without qualification that the patients condition was beyond hope. He did not expect a final collapse tonight, but rather a gradual sinking until the end came. How long the sufferer may last. the doc tors will not venture any prediction. Or dinary calculations. they say, fail to ap- ply to this extraordinary case. One of them remarked today:
 Here is a man almost hundred years old retaining all of his mental and most a.a. fao