Show President Garfields Owe Dr Boynton of Ounratari k here for the winter Your correspondent in an interview with him today obtained ob-tained what he says WM mbiUtiftllj a criticism on the management of I President gar fielda case which he bat contemplated giving to the public pub-lic ever since the death + of the President I Presi-dent but for prudential reasons he I nag withheld heretofore Do you think the Presidents wound was necessarily ne-cessarily fatal be replied ia fail muchdecisive way I do not You think that if he bad had proper pro-per surgical treatment fro n the first he might bare gotten well I most certainly do I dont lay however that be might not bare died even under inch ciwumstaiaea You thing then there was reasonable rea-sonable ground for hope at tint I do moat assuredly II And you think the case wall not properly handled I have always been of the opinion almost from the first that the treatment treat-ment was bad at the start After Agnew and Hamilton came it could not have been better You say then Doctor that the President had a chance a reasonable reason-able chance for recovery at first but that in your opinion these chances were thrown away by the wretched treatment of the case You express it strongly said the i Doctor but you reach a right conclusion con-clusion How long did that chance for recovery exist and when did you lose hope WHEN HE LOST HOPE lOn the 23rd of July when he had the first rigor I think that was the dayjat any rate it was when he had the first rigor I gave him up then Up to that time I had hoped that he might get well but after that I felt there was no ground for hope II Why did you reach that conclusion conclu-sion at that time Was the chill a certain indication ol the approach of deathNo I did not expect immediate dissolution Ihe rigor was evidence of py mia What was the occasion of pyre mia I mean was it unavoidable Pyaemia you know or blood poisoning poi-soning results from broken down pus dead pus Had pysemia Bet in aI think so I did know that the Presidents wound was never cleaned properly till three weeks after he was shot That id more than I have ever said about this matter before but that is the gist of the whole case and the ground for complaint against the Presidents surgical treatment in the early history of the case Subsequent Subse-quent developments fully corroborated corrobor-ated what I feared thenthat is that pus had through carelessness and neglect been allowed to be in the wound till it rotted and pfaemia had done its perfect work You think this could hove been avoided Yes you know what Dr Agnew did as soon as he was called as a consulting surgeon The first thing was to suggest and make an incision to drain what was then supposed to be the track of the ball but which was as you know only a great pus cavity which ought never to have been formed I hold the attending surgeons responsible for the condition of toe wound on the day Agnew and Hamilton were called Doctor I remember that Orump the steward at the White House and one of the nurses said the President Presi-dent suffered a great deal and would sometimes scream out that his feet felt like there were a thousand need lea in them Did the President suffer muchHe He did both from the wound and heat and as Crump said often complained com-plained of that peculiar sensation in his feet Was not this pricking sensation in the feet taken as an indication of spinal injuries It wa and I so suggested to Dr Bliss but he thought differently The autopsy showed up how much he was mistaken cDo you not consider such an injury in-jury to the spine as the President received necessarily fatal As I said before I think the President had a reasonable chance for recovery but it was thrown away by the bad management of the case During the first three weeks when everything depended upon the utmost kill it was then tbat the wound was NOT PROPERLY CLEANED Pus was allowed to accumulate and yssnna which the enfeebled system of the President was not able to overcome over-come someHow did Bliss come to have charge of the case He just took charge of it Be happened to be the first man called after the shooting and be stuck tot to-t shoving everybody else aside Neither the President nor Mrs Garfield ever asked him to take charge of the case Who wrote the bulletins C Dr Elise wrote them Ie And who made the examinations examina-tions Dr Bliss always took the pulse and respiration and Ryburn took the temperature till he was dismissed The observations were generally made when the President was asleep and at I the most favorable hour Did the other surgeons sign the bulletins upon Bliss report without making their own observations cYeBJ they took his word for it till after they went to Elberen when I suggested to Hamilton that they were being deceived He took the i pulse then and it went np in the bulletins Did General Garfield ever Bee the bulletins Only ont One that was extremely ex-tremely favorable wag shown to him I Doctor wkat was the comditiod of the Presidents mind Was he delirious de-lirious much of the time Yea particularly after tbe firs rigor For three weeks prior to that I Friday in August Black Friday as it i is called whin it was theaght HI wil DYta I think it was about tile 27th of August Au-gust fur three weeks prior to that be had beenldeliriouB most of the time His aind clwirsd up a little ani then it wa if you remember that we thought him a little better Dr Boynton exhibited no animosity animos-ity toward the attending physicians bat seems to be honest and positive in his belief that the President had a chance for recovery at the outset which was lest by improper treatment of the case Topeka Special to the St Louis GlobeDonecrat |