Physician on President’s Case

Dr. D. W. Graham Talks of Danger in Wounds in the Chest.

     Dr. D. W. Graham said in regard to the case of President McKinley: “The meager facts that have reached us of the president’s injuries would not warrant an expression of opinion in his particular case. Anything that might be said would be mere guesswork. Wounds through the chest and wounds through the abdomen are exceedingly dangerous, though not necessarily fatal. The danger in wounds through the chest is that some of the large blood vessels may be injured.
     “But if the presidents’s respiration is good, as reported, it would seem that he had escaped that danger. Wounds through the stomach or intestines are dangerous from the leakage that may take place into the cavities of the body. Lacerated bowels may be reunited, but that would not obviate the danger from leakage. If the stomach were perforated there would probably be peritonitis and then nausea.”