| Show GRANTS CONDITION The General Said to be a Very Sick Man YITH NO HOPE OF RECOVERY Fenian Organizations Preparing to Seiiil Slicks to the 3IahdI Cleveland and Manning 1 Grants Condition I NEW YORK February 28In regard i I to General Grants health Col Frederick i Grant said to a Post reporter this afternoon i noon My father is a very sick man here is no use in longer denying the I fact We have made every effort to i keep the true facts from the public because cause we know that as soon as it should become known that he was dangerously ill there would be hundreds of letters coming in with every mail and this I would only exert him and make the case less hopeful My father has had little rest for the past few nights He was up and about the room for a little I while yesterday and we hope to get him up again today but he is suffering con I stant pain in the ear and head For ny facts concerning the nature of his disease I refer you to his physicians The doctors who are attending him are Dr Fordvce Barker Dr J H Douglas and Dr H B Sands of this city and Dr T M Merker of Philadelphia Dr Douglas said I am in nowise responsible for the rose colored report that appears in the Medical Journal last week Two days before the report was rablished I had a conversation with Dr Sands at General Grants house As a result of the conversation we both decided that the cancerous rowth at the root of the tongue was hardening and steadily growing worse Microscopical examination by an expert proved beyond doubt the 1 case to be a malignant epitnelial I growth General Grant is a very sick man I think there is little or no hope that he will recover He is breaking down but has displayed much courage for less than a month he has done as much as six or eight hours work a day but has had little sleep for the past eight days We have tried to keep the knowledge his true condition from the general because he has had so many other trials to bear He takes nourishment nourish-ment every day in a liquid form He cannot eat solid food because he has lost all his teeth They were extracted in the hope ot easing the pain in his face This pain although it resembles neuralgia is not that pure and simple bnt is a reflection of thepain caused by cancer in the throat He has been suffering suf-fering from a severe pain in his right ear and on the top of his head To ease this his head is kept wrapt in hot flannels I cannot say how near his end is He may live for months yet as men suffering from this disease have done but I do not think there is any hope that he will ever recover I I |
