President Garfield’s Condition: August 22, 1881, 6:30 PM

Portraits of Garfield's six doctors surround an illustration of the President on his sickbedEXECUTIVE MANSION,
August 22, 1881.

6.30 P. M.
The President has continued to take liquid nourishment in small quantities at stated intervals during the entire day, and has had no return of nausea or vomiting.  The nutritive enemata are also retained.  The wound is looking well, and the work of repair is going on in all portions exposed to view.  The pus discharge is healthy.  Pulse, 110; temperature, 100.1°; respiration, 19.

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

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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