President Garfield’s Condition: July 18, 1881, 7:00 PM

Portraits of Garfield's six doctors surround an illustration of the President on his sickbedEXECUTIVE MANSION,
July 18, 1881.

7.00 P. M.
The President has had a little more fever this afternoon, which is regarded as merely a temporary fluctuation.  At 1 P. M. his pulse was 98, temperature, 98.5°; respiration, 18.  At present his pulse is 102; temperature, 100.7°; respiration, 21.

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

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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