Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1901 — NOW GETTING WELL [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NOW GETTING WELL

President Is Rapidly Recovering from His Injuries. ONLY MATTER OF TIME ntcrlcr Wound Heals and Dan.cr of Complications Is Past. Physicians Assert That Removal to Washington Could l e Accomplished if Alnolutily Necessary Stomach Resumes Its Digestive Functions and Nouriehinetit Is Taken iu the Usual Way—Mrs. MeKinley Has Bor.ie the Terrible Ordeal Well. The day of the crisis in President McKinley's condition passed Tuesday, the mrgoons, without too much exultation, leclared the danger substantially over, tud the nation once more breathes freey in the confidence that the President will live. For four days the people went through a period of almost heartbreaking anxiety, and it was with a dgli of infinite relief that they turned jack to the accustomed channels of life, .’onvinced that the assassin's bullet had failed. The President is convalescent. He is jetting well whiramazing rapidity. His surgeon* are well satisfied wi:h h's progress; in fact, they are surprised at it. All conditions are as they should te in a patient who is fast recovering, and who is soon to be on his feet again. At Tuesday night's consultation it was decided to reopen the stitches in the skin wound in order to remove slight causes of iriitation. This caused anxiety in some quarters, but the official bulletin of the physicians minimized the action and was positively and distinctly reassuring. Tuesday for the first time since he was hurt the President was per.nitted to turn over on his side. The surgeons during the day considered the advisability of giving their patient nourishment by the mouth, and at night

lecided to abandi n the method of ndministering food by iqui 1 injec.i. us. Wednesday morning the President was given a litt'e beef juke. H's it iina h t< 1 rated this well and it was taken with great satisfaction. Dr. Mcßurney sai 1 at loon Wednslay: 'That the wound iu

the President's .stomach is healed is oroven by the fact that the stomach lias resumed its digestive functions. The President <oull now lie moved to Washington without great danger if absolutely necessary, but he must not return there before Oct. 15." It was declared by the doctors that Mr. McKinley’s stomach is now all right again. There is no furtlier danger of blood poisoning, and the sutured perforations are healing nicely. The wouiid iu the abdomen caused by the five-inch incision of the surgeon’s knife is likely to l>e the last of the President's injuries to heal. Anxiety concerning possible inflammation from the bullet in the back has disappeared. "We are not anxious about it, only watchful,” said Dr. Mann. ’Even if it should cause trouble, which we do not expect, we have every confidence we could locate it by the X-rays and extract it without danger to the patient.’’ Rapidity of Recovery. Four days previous to the statement by the doctors that Mr. McKinley was substantially out of all danger, the head of the nation was believed to be mortally wounded. Now he is so well along the road to recovery that it is believed he will be able to leave his bed and walk nl>out the room iu two weeks, and that his removal to Washington or Canton may be prudently undertaken by the first of October. The surgeons, however, de not intend to permit the President either to leave his bed or to go to Washington till all possibility of danger therefrom has disappeared. Emphatic denial is entero 1 by tbs household physicians of the exaggerated

ae. mints of Mrs. McKinley’s physical and mental condition that have been c i r c U I a ted throughout the country. According to Dr. Rixey, het personal physician, who wns questioned upon the subject by a newspaper ci rrespondrnt, Mrs. McKinley is enjoy-

•ng ns good health as she has enjoyed iu recent years. Although the shock of learning of the attempted assassination of the President nearly prostrated her nt the time, she soon became imbued with the confidence and hopefulness of the physicians, and she is now in the most cheerful frnmc of mind. When Dr. Rlxey told Mrs. McKinley of the extreme gravity of the case she did not break down. Ou the contrary, feeble as she is, grief seemed to lend her strength, and she felt that she must bear up for his sake.

DR. M ' BURNEY.

DR. RIXEY.