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The Daily Dispatch: June 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], The last hours of Hon. S. A. Douglas. (search)
nt, solacing him as best she could, buried under the weight of the deep affliction. Madison Cutts, his brother-in-law; Miss Young, of the Tremont House; B. G. Caulfield, and Dr. Hay, were also present. His death was peaceful and tranquil as the melting away of a summer cloud at evening, and the mourning watchers were alone with all that was earthly of Stephen A. Douglas. The Chicago Post says: Judge Douglas returned home quite unwell, and called his medical attendant on Thursday, May 2. His primary attack was acute rheumatism, which rapidly assumed a typhoid character, and continued from the first very unyielding. After some ten or twelve days his attack was complicated by an ulcerated sore throat, which soon yielded. Torpor of the liver and constipation of the bowels ensued, soon followed by a jaundiced condition, accompanied by poisoning of the blood, which prostrated his nervous system still more — Constant wandering and delirium accompanied his attack from its in