'A. bulletin issued at 8.15 this evening state "The King has had a restful day 'There is a slight improvement in his general condition. 'The administra of calcium, based on a chemical examination of the blood, is pro ducing beneficial results.'
Tt is at present impossible reveal how the calcium was adminis. tered, but presumably one of the: objects of the treatment is to compensate for the lack of a proper quantity of calcium in the blood.
The sight improvement may some measure be attributable to the new calcium treatment. The fact that the doctors are able' to report beneficial results from the treatment is a very hopeful sign and would seem to indicate that in the ealeiam treatment has been found a method to attack His Majesty's extreme: weakness, Jan, 2
Tt is learned carly this morning that the King passed a quiet night! and his condition remains much about the sargo.
The Home Secretary, Sir Joynson Hicks, left for Mentone to-Yay. Before his departure he told Reuter's correspondent that consulted with the King's- doctors before he thought it safe to go. Ho aid he felt the worst of the King's iminess was over and that there was every reason to hope for slow bu: gradual improvement.
Thin morning's bulletin is nek regarded ay being unsatisfactory and may be interpreted as meaning that progress is not cheeked at the: moment but cantinaes very slowly. Calcium treatment is beings continued. This moraing's consult 18 by the doctors lasted an hour.
Jical authority explains thet A bulletin issued at 8.80 this ovening states that the King had a quiet Aay, with no change to report in His' Majesty's condition, Although no authoritative comment is forthcoming in Palace eircles, it is understood that this even fug's bulletin, thow not regarded ay unfavourable, is not as satisfac tory as could have been hoped. That the doctors report no change after a Tapse of twenty-four hours shows! that the King's progress is a matter of extreme slowness.
The doctors have all alonge anticipated that progress must be very slow, but the long interval without administered yo the King, stream. Kk has a Clotting effect on blood and, there. Tore, prevents Uleeding. It ix very effective ju eases in which tuber-s ix possible or suspected. The operation of injecting the substance is simple. It is done by a glass syringe with a hollow needle. The skin i punctured above a vein and the contents of che syringe sent into the blood. stre 'A statement by the Home Sceretsuszests that the calcium Government Troops in Pursuit of the Defeated Rebels
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