Show GBANTS CONDITION A Statement from the Attending At-tending Physician jk THE EXAGGERATED ACCOUNTS Bismarcks Tactics An Uprising 1enred Laud Patents IssOeil Election Frauds Grants Condition NEW YORK March 5Dr Douglas said last night that General Grant has had a red letter day for him He has eaten heartily been out riding and seemed considerably improved The condition of his throat is no better how ever and the progress of the disease has been checked NEW YORK March 5The Vertical Record will say tomorrow In view of recent developments in General Grant condition the Records bulletin two weeks ago so largely quoted by the press of the country requires some explanation It is fair to state that the facts at the time presented bv the fedical Record were founded on the best authority that of Dr Fordyce Barter Bar-ter attending physician to General Grant and this explanation is manifest in the following note 24 EAST THIRTYEIGHT STBEET Dew Doctor Shrady The statement which I made you was literally true It the time I made it and I amcertain i that Dr DoUglas would have then made precisely the same I saw Dr Douglas last evening and he hen sjid that what I had told you was exactly what he should have said at the time but the Monday after I saw YOU the action ofCongress had a most 1 depressing effect on General Grant His 1 vital powers suddenly broke down and he loiial malady speedily assumed anew a-new aspect The newspaper accounts have been greatly exaggerated and we have never anticipated any such speedy ermination as they have indicated I do not believe Dr Douglas ever used the word cancer in connection with the se 7e have always spoken of it as epithe lioma of a malignant type probably It was greatly improved for a time by the local treatment of Dr Douglas and the local condition was manifestly improving im-proving until the moral shock broke down in his general system Ever faithfully Signed FOBDYCE BAnKER Wednesday noon March 4 1885 It is a matter of deep regret that grave suspicions are entertained of the serious nature of General Grants disease which are confirmed by a diagnosis of the epi helioma of the tongue and face This disease the name of which is now perhaps per-haps heard of by the general public for the first time assumed an importance as to study which it could never otherwise other-wise obtain Consequently the daily papers educating tho people with regard I I re-gard to it so the terms epithelioma malignancy and infiltration to be as well understood as in former times 1 I were those of suppuration of the pus rickandbullet cysts As might have been anticipated under the circumstances I circum-stances the published reportsof the Generals condition were very much exaggerated The disease is by no means as extensive as generally believed In fact the ulcerations small in extent are limited to the right pillars of the fauces the anterior one being > perforated at its base Adjoining joining the right side of the root of the tongue is indurated to a slight extent as is also the neighboring gland under the angle of the jaw on the right side of the neck The roof of the mouth along the line of the hard palate and to the right of the medium line contains three small wartylike excrescences which show a tendency toward cell proliferation The epiglottis is free romany abnormality as are aU the othe parts of the throat Although the induration of the tongue has existed more or less since last fall when the patient was seen by Dr Douglas the ulcerations have appeared quite recently It was during their progress that the General suffered nom pain in the riht ear which now has been entirely entir-ely relieved by a local application of a 4 per cen solution of coacine Under the same treatment all pain in deglutition deglu-tition is now entirely controlled andthe patient is kept in a very comfortable state Thepulsewhich is normally 60 per minute occasionally reaches 80 beats The bodily temperature is normal the appetite fair which is saying everything every-thing in its favor as the General is not a hearty eater His bodily condition is however much below par and is more to be considered at present than the local disease The treatment of the cas has been judiciously conservative from he start Fluid extract of cocoa is administered internally and iodoform is dusted upon the ulcerations Contrary Con-trary to the general impression the tongue itself is not ulcerated nor has it been as far as we can learn at any time during the progress of the disease The troublesome tooth said to have been extracted tor the relief of the lingual ulceration was on the opposite on the sound side of the month and was removed re-moved to relieve the persistent ache of the left ear |