The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1904-02-17

rival Or. Brewer agreed with the dag.
nosis of the attending physicians. DR..
William Osler, the eminent diagnos.
tician of the Johns Hopkins hospital
In Baltimore, was summoned and find
ing symptoms Of typhoid fever sug-
| gested that an examination of the SEN
Rtor's blood be made to determine def
nitely the trouble On the 5th the ply
sicians announced that Mr.. Hanna was
suffering from a case of irregular ty-
! phoid.
Mr.. Hanna worried considerably
about his senate work and finally at
his suggestion urgent matters were
placed in the hands of Senator Fair
| banks.
Excessive weakness characterized
NE senator's condition Sunday, the
It'll To relieve his mind of business
worry his brother, H. NJ. Hanna of
Thomasville, Ga, was summoned. He
arrived in Washington late Sunday
night and was followed a few hours
later by DR.. Carter, Senator Hannas
family physician in Cleveland.
After a consultation of doctors on
the Sth it was announced that the
fever had developed into a regular
type of typhoid The senator grad.
ually grew weaker; his fever continued
alarmingly high.
Resistance Against Death.
The senator during all the latter
days of his illness. even while obliv-
ious to all save his doctors efforts in
his behalf astonished his physicians
by the tenacity with which he clung
to life and determination with which
his strong will aided their efforts to
avert death. From Sunday on the
sick man grew weaker and weaker
and responded more and more feebly
to the powerful stimulants applied by
the physicians until finally the strong
vital forces came to a final stop at
$40 o'clock last evening.
Dr. Edward Perkins Carter of Cleve-
land, one of the attending physicians,
made this statement regarding Mr.
Hanna's illness.
Senator Hanna died quietly at 20
minutes of Z this evening after most
superb fight against very virulent at
tack of typhoid fever. The senator
had not been well for some weeks but
had been confined to his bed only dur
ing the past 10 days.
From the early course of the dis
ease there was no evidence as to the
| intense severity of the infection and
the outlook at first seemed bright.
Since Sunday, the 7th, the progress OF
the fever became more marked, there
being a gradual rise in the tempera-
ture from day to day, and by Wednes-
day the evidences of severe toxic
condition were such as to make the
| physicians in attendance anxious as
to the ultimate outcome, though count
ing upon Mr. Hanna's indomitable will
they continued to be hopeful.
"The early inability to retain nour-
ishment was finally overcome, and the
case seemed to be progressing more
favorably when on Friday last the
senator had a severe chill most un-
usual occurrence in the course of ty-
phoid fever
Following this his temperature rose
rapidly, reaching 1O5 that night, and
the evidences of profound toxcmia
were marked. During the last days of
Senator Hanna's illness he was able
to retain the nourishment given and
responded in a way little short of mar.
velous to every treatment which was
resorted to, rallying promptly from
series of collapses which at intervals
followed the chill of Friday.
Saturday had been such a favorable
day that his physicians took courage
and even then hoped for favorable
outcome. The change for the worse
came early Monday morning and was
followed by a gradual failure of his
strength, which already had been
evertaXed by the severity of the dis
ease His wonderful recuperative
power was such that though the end
had been expected at almost any time
| during the early hours of Monday
morning he clung tenaciously to life
until late in the afternoon when he
succumbed."