But the strain of travel and of constant speaking was beginning to tell upon the President and first one ¢hange and then another was made in his itinerary. An attack of ptomaine poisoning brought new complications and when he arrived at San Francisco on July 29 he was declared ta be very sick man." All his appointments were cancelled two eminent local physicians were called in consultation with the two doctors already in attendance, and tentative plans wer' made for a return to Washington. The bulletins seemed to be alternately alarming and reassuring, but on August 2 the President was pronounced out of danger. At 7.30 in the evening of the same day, with all the doctors absent from the room and no on@ present but Mrs. Harding and a nurse, Mr. Harding suddenly expired from an effusion of blood on the brain.
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