NEWS OF THE WEEK.
WE are happily able to record good news in regard to the King. Throughout the week the bulletins have 'been daily more and more satisfactory, and the last issued on Friday morning has proved no exception. The operation wound is of course the great source of anxiety, but all the signs appear to be favourable. There was at first intense pain connected with the wound, but this, a normal symptom, has now happily diminished, and the King, though of course very weak, appears to be fairly comfortable. Needless to say, though things have gone so well—so much better, indeed, than might save been expected, considering all the circumstances—there is still cause for the greatest possible care and watchfulness on the part of the doctors and nurses, and the King himself. The patient must co-operate with his doctors in the future as he has in the past, for the smallest act of rashness on his part might cause a dangerous relapse. Though we have happily the right to believe that the worst part of the precipice is passed, the King is still, as it were, walking on a razor-edge, and all possible care is needed. Fortunately, as the Lancet states, the King is "an extremely good patient, and is abso- lutely loyal to his medical attendants." Let us trust he will be as good a patient in convalescence as in the crisis,—a more difficult thing, we admit, but in such a case by no means less important. •
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