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     Dr. Halderman’s attention having been called to the fact that McKinley’s case seems to have been handled better surgically, than was Garfield’s, replied that twenty years is a long time in the evolution of surgery. The advances that have been made in the last twenty years are marvelous. McKinley’s case was a more serious one than that of Garfield, yet the physicians pulled him through in phenomenally short order. Surgery has not yet reached the point where it can take a man to [pieces?] and then put him together again, but it is pressing rapidly towards that consumation [sic].
     The doctor is amused at surgeon’s [sic] who are getting themselves interviewed, and incidentally getting much cheap advertising, men who possibly passed in and out of the sick room, having done nothing, and were spotted by the reporters.