President Garfield’s Condition: July 8, 1881, 8:00 PM

Portraits of Garfield's six doctors surround an illustration of the President on his sickbedEXECUTIVE MANSION,
July 8, 1881.

8.00 P. M.
The President’s condition continues favorable.  He has passed a very comfortable afternoon, and has taken more nutriment than on previous days.  Pulse, 108, temperature 101.3°; respiration, 24.

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

The condition continues so favorable there will be no further bulletin until to-morrow morning.

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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