THE KAISER'S ILLNESS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11753, 30 November 1903, Page 6

THE KAISER'S ILLNESS.

One* cannot be surprised that tbe Kaiser's illness is causing some anxiety in Court circlets in fieri-,, especially since it is feared that a further cpei-tion may be necessary in view of certain tinexpected complications. As w* have good cause to remember, in the ca*e of Queen Victoria and King Edward, the maladies of Sovereigns are never paraded for the sympathy of the world at large; as * rule they are minimised as much as possible until the patient recovers oi> the gravity of tha owe makes it impossible to disguhie the truth. The cabled details of the £ii_Ar_ throat trouble one too meagre to wirrant rnedkol man «c----pressing d«ided opinions on its _ature, but no one at'the prossnt jsnetore can forget that affection* of the throat ore hereditxry, in the reigning f wnily of Germany. Thi pathetic story of the illness and death «i the present Kaisiir'sfather,;tbo Emperor Frederic-, wht« ccfrftacflidtd the throne to die, recur to all, It ia* memory of inteKHSt to. EbgUshmeo, not only cji '.i»isboV_« oi l "his relationship to the British royal how*, but hvoouse on English speaialist was m constant kttendance Opon him from tbatiu_» when, as tSrown Prince, he ft^,developed the insidious complaint which wo soon was to end his days. There is no doubt to-day that the cause of bis; death ■ was .ioMmtv '' Eariy ; in.-1888 4 operation of tracheotomy was jie(*s_*d upon him, .For some t_» th^;_sd'been *Sarn_ng ruinourir current) Ss» to the state of his health, 1 hut the doctors in attendance held that iu> operation was necessary, and Sir Morell Mackeiirie, who J_d been called in several; weeks before,' maintained that the disease .was not. oancer, tat perichondritis. Howevw, «a oje-iation became httpecative, and * salver «mnula waa inserted in the windpipe, Shortly after theOrown Prince bad beconw Jfinpsror his condition became aftjoai, owing to an attack of bronchitis and He died «M_s tfcpeo, numtht after ho sbcoeeded to tha throne. Tta post mortem ' examinatl<m' : ■ indisputably .-■■iteQfijgSfjir W■' tha cause of death! ' it wiU'-bs r«»o^e^, co__de»Ma hostility _«m»tb*-Gen__a doctow in attendance upon the Empereir. Bis hod declared that the. growth was innonatrably not cancerous, I Wing his view upon a. microscopical exa_jh»tio_ by Virshow of » por>io_ of the tiara*. Hbt opinion was follows- iUier the- German, doctors were again called in, and it was ultimately admitted that the disease was «onoer. Sk Morell Afackenxio did not hnpwve ma-tan by feitrtfng that the affection had become) iualignaat sane* hi. firatexaminaijim, in consequence of tbe treatment by thi> Gorman doototw, «ad a painful wrangle ensued between the British specialist and the German doctors, Recollections «f tfc» illness of the Emperor Frederick and <hi» causa of his death mutt be mach in the sa-tds of tha JCaisetVi subjects j_rt now, __d moat contribute in no 'small degree • to, the ' anxiety "they, fed