The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-06-24
Doctors Declare Operation Will
Not Be Necessary Unless
There Is a Relapse
Nominee for Vice President
Wires He Expects to Meet
Taft in Washington
Wife and Son of Sufferer Rush
to Cleveland Despite the
Protests of Friends

CLEVELAND, June 23.-Repre-
sentative James Schoolcraft Sherman,
republican candidate for vice presi-
dent, removed early today from the
home of former Governor Herrick to
Lakeside hospital, a sufferer from gall
stones, is reported, in an official bulle-
ton tonight, as holding his own after
a somewhat restless day.
If the patients condition continues
to improve, the bulletin said, it was
not likely that an operation for the
removal of the gall stones would be
necessary. The physicians state that
Sherman's well known abstemlous hab-
strength to resist the ravages of the
disease
The following telegram was dictated
by Sherman to his secretary late this
evening in answer to a message of
sympathy, to the presidential nominee,
William H. Taft:
My illness is not or critical ma
ture and the doctors this afternoon ad-
vised me that l can probably go home
in three or four days. | thank you
ever so much, indeed, for your cordial
telegram. l expect to see you I'm Wash
ington on Wednesday of next week.
u. s. SHERMAN
RESTS MORE COMFORTABLY
The unfavorable symptom in the case.
is the. continued high temperature In
the o'clock bulletin tonight it was
given as 102 z, with pulse normal. At
that hour Sherman was restless.sEhe
extreme heat of the day, running into
the nineties, did not add TO the COM
fort of the patient
A bulletin issued at II D. m. stated:
Mr.. Sherman is resting more comfort
ably now. Temperature, 102; pulse, 92."s
At midnight Sherman's temperature
was 102, pulse So, respiration 2S. He
had been sleeping at intervals. No
more bulletins will be issued until 2:30
a. m. unless there is a decided change.
An effort to reach DIR. Morrison of
Johns Hopkins university, Baltimore,
failed late tonight, as DR.. Morrison had
departed for Europe.
Shermans illness assumed a serious
phase early this morning and upon
the advice of Drs. Allen and Carter he
was removed to Lakeside hospital.
MRS. SHERMAN ALARMED
Ex-Governor Herrick this morning
got into communication with Mrs. Sher-
man over the long distance telephone.
She was greatly agitated upon hearing
the condition of her husband and de-
clared her intention of coming at once
to Cleveland. An effort to persuade
her not to come at present failed, and
she and her son, Richard U. Sherman,
an instructor in Hamilton college at
Clinton, n. Y, started for this city.
Congressman Sherman suffered
similar attack in New York city two
years ago while serving as chairman
of the republican congressional cam
paign committee. He was then taken
seriously i'll, but no operation was per-
formed.
The illness caused by gall stones is
generally more painful than dangerous.
The stones form in the gall bladder
and. if not dissolved by medical meth
eds, increase in size until they are too
large to pass through the gall duct.
Then it is often necessary to perform
an operation, and frequently the gall
bladder is removed entirely. The oper-
alton itself is not necessarily danger
GUS There is a large percentage of re-
coveries, though, according to physi-
clans, there is always danger of COM
plications