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‘pe bet , “~er"factors throughout the case, At first Dr. McBurney Is Blamed by Some for Wis Over-Confident Predictions of the President'sRecovery. (Special to Tae Zvening World.) BUFFALO, Sept. 16.—Controveray re- sulting from the wide disagreement among the physicians who attended President McKinley haa reached a bitter stage. Apparently they agree only upon one point In connection with the that the Presi- Mfe was hopeless from the first. ‘That one point is that Dr. McBurney, of New York, was alone responsible for the public impression that Mr. McKin- ley was certain to get well. The other surgeons declare that from the first Dr. McBurney was n:ost optim. fetic: that he talked freely with news- Faper men about the case, contraty to hie ueual custom, and gave them posi- tive assurances that Mr. McKin! would get well. Dr. Mann says that nt one time he was on the point of issuing a statement over his own algnature setting forth the Prealdent’s condition more {n accordance with the facts of the case as he saw it. Pointe of Diengreement. The disagreements among the sur- Geons can be summed up us follows: As to the track of the wound made by the second bullet, Dr. Park says that Mt penetrated the pancreas. The others fay that It did not. As to the cause of the gangrene, Dr. Waadin says it looks to him like poison from a poisoned bullet. ‘The others think not. Dr. Park says he thinks the pancreatlo Quld {# responsible for the gangrene. fhe others deny that the pancreatic Nuld escaped from the pancreas. Ad to tho extent of the gangrene, Dr. Mann suys he found gangrene in. the @urface of the wound made by the nec- @nd bullet when he opened it on Tusa. | Gay, and that he cut away the mortl- | fled flesh there before sewing it up egain. Dr. Park says there was no gungrene found there at that time. As to the case in general. some say that It Is a fare case, others that It hud few extra- ordinary ¢eatures. Furthermore, it has now come out that underneath the skin where the first bullet struck and made a slight abrasion they found at the autopsy a ¢ large patch of gangrened flesh several inches in diameter, | Dr. Matthew D. Mann, who performed the operation on the President; Dr, Ros- well Park, Dr. Herman Mynter and Dr. Eugene Wasdin were interviewed by an Evening World correspondent. Their statements agree only on the one point, that the case was hopeless from the be- | ginning. Dr, Wasdin says: “The high pulee and weak heart ac- tion of Mr. McKinley were disturbing we attributed these symptome to shock, but after forty-eight hours, when Mr. McKinley should have recovered from the Immediate effects of the @ound and operation, the symptoms stil! continued and we were forced to abandon the theory, 3 Dr. McBurney fi ed Food. “We then thought that the raptd pulse | might be due to exhaustion from lack of nourishment. Dr. McBurney sug-| gested that we give the President | nourishment, He thought the adminis. | tration of small quantities of food | mouth would prove a men- tal stimulus, as the President seemed depressed from lack of nourishment. “After we had given Mr. McKinley some solld food, and he seemed to have trouble in digesting it, we were afraid that a mistake had been made, but the | condition of hia organs disclosed by the autopsy showed that this did not affect the reault of the case in any degree. “The first iniimation of what ally the ter wi came on Tuesday, whi incision in the abdomen, By that time the peritoneum, which had been cut for the entire length of the surface incision, Nad grown together, 0 that it was Im: Poaalble to see what was going on in- i le. “We found gangrene in the surface wound, and small particles of-diseased | fieeh were cut aw, This fact was not) made public. W Id not consider ft was the President we opened the 3 | men MHOOCHODASSV 8 Oe GOOGCOSOEOADE: y DR. ROSWELL DEOVSDOOSOTSOIOOIN ditions and We had no ing that gangrene was developing inside the peritoneurs In the case of the fatal wound that no effort whatever had been made by nature to repair the damage The President simply had been growing worse every day and we had no know!- edge of it. Or. Mynter Disag Mynter does not agree with the that the bullet was polfoned, He Mm unable to indorse Dr. Wasdin'’s mn theory. any pola was used t exposure. Dr. theo what f the let, and we have the three remaining bullets, taken from the assassin's revolver. ‘These will be subjected to chemical and bacterio- lozteal examinations. Dr. Park's Gangrene Theory. Dr. Park dictated the following st “The gangrene was due to the action of the secretion which escaped from the Injured pancreas. Th forated by the b ‘here was no gan- rene around the upper wound. The ects of the pancreatic juice ‘upon surrounding tissues into which jt morbett Is not Dr. Mann dl claiming that th by the bullet. hi was “Dr. Park's idea is exploded by the fact that the pancréas wae not torn by the bullet. nition i From tts position it could touched by x bullet which the point where this and after passing the stomach eft kidney, pancreas effec: both in a especially significant, as it was likely was communicated from the slirround: Ing tinauea, i WHAT LOCAL DOCTORS SAY ~ OF SURGEONS’ QUARREL. Everything Possible Was Done and Controversy Now Is Without Profit and in Bad Taste. Relative to the controversy between the doctors who attended President Mo- Kinley, Dr. Lewis E. Stinson, for twen- ty-Ave years a leading surgeon of this elty, and who has performed thousands @f operations, made the following state. ment to-day to an Evening World re- porter: “The apparent controversy between the physicians and aurgoons In attend- ance on,the President is unfortunate, Béedless and without profit. “Taking into account all the state- Ments that have appeared, it seems to me beyond question that the case was treated skilfully and that nothing was overlooked or left undone, “His wound was put Into proper con- dition for repair that would have~pro- duced a cure in most cases, perhaps in nineteen out of twenty. An essential factor In effecting repair ta the patient. The surgeon puts the wound In proper @ondition; the patient must effect the repair, “Tho legend under the famous picture 4a the ampitheatre of the Medica! School @ Paris rea ‘I dressed him, God @ured him.’ We might paraphrase it: ‘B dressed his wound, he healed it.’ “Phe surgeon's work having been done, he nas to walt for nature to heal the wound. He may or may hot gain infor- mation from the symptoms how thai Process {s golng on, ented Was the case with the President. ‘he wound was shut off from view. a Nothing could be known of its.condition except from’ general: symptoms, ‘Appar- ‘ were not golng Te expected was the quickening of the pulse, and that might have been due to independent causes. “The fact that a patient thus wount and thus treated had survived his oper- ation four or five dan without any other, bad symptoms was suffitient to warran: the confident beltef that he -would re- cover. I know how strong the pressure Was to obtain assurances of his recov- ery, and I could easily belleve that the physicians In charge were strongly moved on grounds of pubile policy to Make the most confident statements that could ba warranted, and omitted expres- son of the existence of what were only Temote poutibiities, “The apparent differences of opinion amdiig the doctors concerning some of regrettable all the more Ruse they could have had no bearing ‘on the result. Given the condition of vitality of the President, his age, &c., 1 bellev> his wound was necemsarlly fatal from the firet, and that death would have come {ill surgeons had not shown such excellent Ju mt in the extent that they cave to their surgical interference.’ Dr. Charies C, Barrows, of No, 8 West Thirty-aixth street, 9 “L do not think ‘it Is consistent with dignity to enter into a discussion of thi Prealdent’s case at this time. It aeems 40 me it would have been in good tasty t ed it at least und ths ts much to say, however: the sooner if the ound was’ ni Hy. jue to not -be dtecovered except antopsy. “As tor other point, st ts not com- 1 to have been produced by surface con- | ancreas was per- |i PARK. COOSA moa to eriticlae a doctor for giving out 4 hopeful report.” bidet Dr. Cyran Edson's View. Dr. Cyrus Edson sal is unfortunate that he doctors ot Into a wrangle over this mat- public will get the idea that dectors could probably have done something to save the President's ilfe. This tn erroneous Iden. His Ife could saved. Everything possible was or him. McBurney should hopeful view o: have “Dr, for hy Moc! As long and be criticised ie cane. Ne not if in as is soon n my opinion, the pancreas was not Penetrated. And’ ull this” talk Kangrene Ia amazing to me. ink that the tesues Krenour, an't were actually thesls of the cause of the about the track of the ftened and broke down, allow- content of the stomach to to the abdominal ne these contents nal cavity resulted in a shi my opinion, caused the cavity. The the ab- vhich ne h The softening of the tissues may be accounted for on two grounds—first, the bullet’ may have been polsoned by a replic poison, auch as putrid anf matter infested with the germs of sep: Neaemla, T don't think any vegetable Dolson was used. “A second reason for the roftening of the Uns may be the patient's ad- vi age and the tnabliity of the ts: to effect a repalr, ‘The cultures taken from the soft- ened tinsues along the course of the bule let will not show conclusively that the bullet was poisoned.” Dr, Avatin Flint said: nyeway."* . George D. Hamten “The surgeons in charge © are all too eminent to warrant by others in the profession. that difference them. It does not alter the vealed by the autopsy that the the President was beyond the human skill." Dr. T. Halstead Myers said: ‘@ no data on which to nd I wouldn't discuss the eub- fd: tf the case DR. CHARLES i bai criticism It is a pity has arisen among fact re- injury to reach of “Criticlam of the men who worked so bravely and so skilfully to save the President whould not be indulged in at his time." They Talked Too Mach. Dr, James B. Tuttle sald: tors fact ature ai from the time he was shot to wan ugh to-make any ex! surgeédn anxious, ‘The doc- Buffalo talked toc much. The at the President's pulse, temper- J respiration never went down hia death perienced The traumatism produced by the pax- rage of 4 bullet trough the tissuen of- ty in necrosis in {tm trac ten results f aa much necroais arenerally, three or four days. “Aw at the end of the fifth ale had Mppedred, Dr. 3 doubt felt t Abe is results from ae. “The fact, howe that the o wou at but no such Burney no seri- patient's uise, temperature and respiration re- feutned abnormal, left. a doubt in the mids of those who read the reports as to the satisfactory condition o} tent. “The gangrene manifest Itxelf something to eat. not create it, but re “No criticiam can % management of the case. 1 do the ullet was poisoned. If he sled it. waa there, but did not unt! patient Toast and coffee mado as f the pas Kk d to the not think so, there would have been sepsis, The President's jorta Injury waa om f a if dr, Park waa “Edo not think I Jealous.” DR, M’BURNEY SAYS GREAT HARMONY PREVAILED. Praises Work of Fellow Physicians and Leans Toward-Poisoned Bullet Theory. “STOCKBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 16.—Dr, Charles McBurney, who has retugned from ‘Buffalo’ to his summer home here, han not seen the strictures on him made by the other physicians who were in at- tendance on the President. Ho haw ts- sued a statement regarding the case, In’ whioh he says: “The a n'a bullet may have been polsoned. We will have to walt for a chemleal analysia of the bullots left’ in his revolver before we decide on that question, and even this may not be de- claive, as, if polson was used, It was ufed {n small quantit and the chem- {ata will be working under a disadvan- tage In not knowing what polson was used, . : “In all my experience I have never seen a wound In such a condition as de- ascribed in’ the report of the autopsy made by an ordinary, bullet, A bullet wound may bo received in the thigh, for Instance, and provided It does not cut an artery or shatter a bone ‘It wil quickly heal under ordinary conditions. “In .@ wound like “the President's, where many tissues were perforated, the suspicious thing is that, according td the roporty, the, gangrene followed the en- tire path of the bullet, In cutting thi tleaue of the stomach, for exampie, an ordinary wound night develop to a in, but ff 1 underata: gangrene ne extent where the bullet went 1 the reports of the autopsy correct{}, the gangrene was Just as great in extent at the the wound ax at tts beginning. can Is something that ny one end of This under- stand, assuming that the bullet was an ordinary one, Even if the presence of of had been dixcovered betore t! President assumed such a ton of the gangre condl- serious phase {t is doubtful if nia life could have been nay “One way to treat conditions like this would be to lay open the whole wound the dineased the President's, and wound cut out Nke tins A Involying so many different Ussues, could hardly be treated in this w away « part of the stomach, y, for after cutting a part of ‘the abdomen and @ part of the other tleaues Involved what would there have been left? You cannot apply agents to wounds ilke that. chemical “The most perfect harmony existed between the surgeons and work In Buffalo. Before in consultation to Buffalo t! per aocovnts showed that tho ‘who operated on the President most. excollent plece of work, physicians at As 8 called siteneo had done M'BURNEY. g Hall's Journal! of Health. vegetable Preparation for As - similating the Food andRegula- Ung the Stomachs and Bowels of Promotes Digestion Cheerful- ness and Rest.Contains neither Opie: Morphing nor Mineral. OT NARCOTIC. Aperfect Remed for Cons: teeseur Stomach, Dianrivien Worms Convulsions Feverish- ness and LOSS OF SLEEP. Fac Sismile Signature of ALB onths old) 33 Dosis — RVCILNIS in potsons and explosives Is under po- lice surveillance at Rockaway Beach, MEMORIAL SERVICES TO BE HELD IN WESTMINSTER. ———++- ¢ King Orders the Union Jack Half-Masted on Round Tower, Windsor Castle. LONDON, Sept. 16.—The United Staten the Upited States Embanay to-day and Embassy, though not yet officially in-, entered the'r names tn the Vivi ‘i sf Book, white otherw telegraphed condol- formed of the fact, learns that a me- encer. mortal Ident Me: minster Abbey afternoon, at nerved for m and the Dip! A memorial service will also be held simultaneously at 3%. Paul's Cathedral, the Lord Mayor and the sheriffs of the City of London attending In state. By command of King Edward, the Union Jack, which floats over the Round Tower of Windsor Castle during the abs of the Court, in half-masted as a tribute of respect to the late Presi dent Telegrams from the colonies continue |3 to furnish world-w-lde evide wpect fur the late Presld Parllament of New Zealand will adjourn on the day of the funeral, Many well-known persona called at SORROWING CITY IS DRAPED IN MOURNING. _———__—+4. Emblems of Grief Seen Everywhere on Public Buildings and Private Dwellings. rvice In honor of the late Pres. inley will be held in Weat- at 3 o'clock Thursday whi will be embers of the Government atic Corps. ‘The newspapera here continue to ex- press the h that the Duke of Cora- wail and York will be able to attend the nu McKinley, but it y doubtful ff it can peclally ince the cere- i been fixed weate to thh . immediate action on the part of King Edward ts the only way to ring the attendance of the Duke at Washington, “It would be a unique opportunit the atminster Gazette " showing, British —sympath United States owing to the dental fact that the King’s son Iw near at hand, are certain, be appre: n people.” Us personality, at- bles of the Ei ne as of his achieve= of letters, Rough Rider From Ha nto the Battery, and iny fide the snerenes to on sl and ny tf . «ot e ew front of St. Paul's a fa ath mus OGLE ads Greater New| qraped with black, floats oUt Over ort the Stars and Stripes are waving the fluttering colors) of the national emblem are shaded with “ the sombre black of mourning for the! dead Prevideat, Broad bands of crepe! bands extend front aii the promfnent bulldings in the down- the top of the structure to the ground town district, from roofs to Moor lines, | between the windows, All of the col- verywhere the decorations testify umnw at tne entrance ate festooned In sincere feellng of grief arous the untimely end of William 3 In the financtal district thi Hroudway. 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Odell fs to be TE: f Respect ory. of the Prest- mem¢ ed bustess, ear x. M. until ITALIANS’ HIGH TRIBUTE. Start Sebecription for a Wo cutive Committe nument to Martyred President. the ltal- Soctetles for t ation of the Italian national holiday, at a meeting held to-day, alved to suse end the celebraton of the anniversary of to delagate sp. «to the offelal and ¢ late President. MeKinle: subscription monument on one of the public squares in in memory of this great mo duty.” MOURNING IN CORK the start a erection of a public to be 7 ‘tor t ar 0 FOR M’KINLEY. LONDON, Sept. 16,—Eviden mourning for President McKir witeapread at Cork. The Lord Sir Dantel Hegarty, meeting of the Corporation for. to pase, a vote of sympathy States, has conv pees of ney a ed Sept, 25, wid the cltizens of the United ink a the citizens e Uni! ey >A ey are rare | It is Pleasant. 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