President Garfield’s Condition: July 6, 1881, 8:30 AM

Portraits of Garfield's six doctors surround an illustration of the President on his sickbedEXECUTIVE MANSION,
July 6, 1881.

8.30 A. M.

The President has passed a most comfortable night, and has slept well.  His condition has remained throughout as favorable as when the last bulletin was issued.  The pulse is becoming less frequent, and is now 98; temperature, 98.9°; respiration, 23.

D. W. BLISS,
J. K. BARNES,
J. J. WOODWARD,
ROBT. REYBURN.

The next bulletin will be issued at 12 o’clock M.

This post is one of a series reenacting the official bulletins released to the public by the physicians to President Garfield during his illness after the shooting on July 2, 1881.

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