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    "ocrText": "514 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES.\nCASE OF PRESIDENT MCKINLEY.\n515\nThere are fewer casts-small and large hyaline-some finely granular.\nCylindroids are more abundant.\nSIS\nSeventh day, Thursday, September 12th. The President slept a good\nt\ndeal during the night, and awoke in the morning feeling better. The\nWid\nStil\nbeef juice was continued and increased, and a little chicken-broth added\n\"\n8\nto the dietary. He also had a little whiskey and water.\n\"\nE\nAt 8.30 A.M. he had chicken-broth, a very small piece of toast and a\nWY\n8\nsmall cup of coffee. He did not care for the toast, and ate scarcely\nNW\n21\nany of it.\n\"\n8\nThe wound was dressed and washed with a weak solution of iodine\nWd\nE\nand then with hydrogen dioxide. He was given 30 c.c of castor oil at\nWH\n08'9\n9.20 A.M.\nNW\nZ/\n1\nThe President now seemed at his best and his condition to warrant\n\"\n07Z\nthe favorable prognosis given out. The time for peritonitis and sepsis\n\"\nOE'E\nhad passed. The bowels had moved and gas passed freely, showing that\nWd 916\nthere was no obstruction. The tongue was clear, and the appetite in-\nWHOE'S\n\"\n076\ncreasing; and he seemed to be able to digest food. There was no pain\n2\nor tenderness in the abdomen, and he was able to turn easily and to\nWd\nE\nsleep on his side. The urine was steadily increasing. His spirits were\n&\nDO\nW\nN\n21\ngood and his mind clear, while his pulse, though frequent, was strong\n6\nand of good quality, and the temperature low.\n<<<\n022\nThe analysis of the urine gave no uneasiness, as the amount of urea\nOT'S\nwas fair; there was no albumin worth considering, and the casts were\nWY OEZ\nI\nrapidly diminishing. There were no more of them than are found in a\n\"\n6\nlarge percentage of cases following a long operation under ether. The\n6\nWH\nto\nexcess of indican was taken to mean merely some intestinal indigestion,\nNW\n21\nand to be of no serious import. The only symptom to cause any uneasi-\nN\n21\nness was the frequency of the pulse. Still, anxiety on this score was\n9\nrelieved by knowing that the President had naturally a rapid pulse, and\n80\n\"\nS\nthat it was easily excited. The open wound was not considered impor-\n\"\nOZE\ntant. It looked healthy, and, though it would take a long time to heal,\nWHDEZI\nin itself it was evidently causing no harm, nor was it likely to.\n\"\n9\nDr. McBurney left Buffalo for his home in the morning, having\nW'd\nE\narranged to return at once if his presence was desired.\nN\n2/\nToward noon it was noticed that the character of the pulse was not\nL\n-\n6\nquite so good. Infusion of digitalis, 8 c.c., was ordered, and strychnine,\n8\n0.002 gramme.\nWH\n9\nIt was thought probable that there was some intestinal tox2emia, as\nNW\nZ/\nthere had been no free movement from the bowel since food had been\n//\nbegun, the oil having failed to act. Gradually the pulse went to 130,\nSTOI\nand grew weaker.\n6\nDr. Charles G. Stockton was added to the medical staff in consulta-\n`W'd\n928\ntion. At 7 P.M. the President was given 0.20 gramme of calomel.\nLG\n09\nBulletin 32, 8.30 P.M. The President's condition this evening is not quite\nso good. His food has not agreed with him, and has been stopped. Excre-"
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