The weekly clarion., 1870-12-22

| CHICAGO, Dec. 4.-The City of EI0in
some forty miles west of Chicago, is great,
excited by the appearance OF strange dis
ease in that vicinity, the first case known q
which terminated fatally on Friday last
The facts are as follows: On Friday week
| Mrs. G. w. Daniels. a lady y years of age
| who was married two years ago, and gave
| birth to child eleven months since, was
Frustrated by what seemed at first 10 be
premonitsry symptoms OF typhoid fever
She had not been well for some time previ-
Gus, but nothing serious was.anticipated till
| Sunday, when she was compelled 6 take %
her bed and place herself under medical
| treatment. She complained OF pains in her
| bones and soreness in her flesh. Nothing
] very unusual, however, was observed until
| Sunday morning. when the milk from her
| breast attracted attent tiOn by its dark color,
| it looking like the washings of an ink bot
| tie. Submitting the milch to microscopic
| examination, it was found to contain i'm
mense numbers of animaculae, different I'm
size and shape from any human parasite OF
| which the attending phy sician had ever
| seen or heard. They seemed TO be some
| what heXAgonal in form, longer one way
| than the other. They did not seem to have
| any head but were evidently alive. judging
| from the way they moved about. Their
| size was estimated by the doctor as VARYING
| from the one hundred thousandth to 1--WE
hundred thousandth of an inch i'm diameter.
| The power OF the microscope varied from
| ametres, the former being required To make
| the insect visible. They were not trichina
! as the doctor was well acquainted with that
form of parasite, and this new kind WAS
much smaller and of an entirely different
shape. Authorities were searched but none
of them gave any clue by which they could
be identified, and the doctor and those with
whom he consulted were compelled to be-
lieve that they had discovered a new species
of human parasite.
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She suffered terribly, and complained of
soreness all over her body. Nothing could
be done TO relieve her; she could not bear a
bath. and could hardly bear TO be touched.
She fingered in agony until this afternoon
at one o'clock, when she died.
There was some reason ut first to believe
that the parasites were the product OF some
disease of the breast, and were confined TO
that locality. The doctor determined To
test the matter. Anticipating her death he
was prepared to do so five minutes after life
was extinct and whilst the body was warm
he made an incision into the cali of the leg.
and, drawing the lancet examined the
moisture which covered il. He found three
of the parasites. only one of which was
alive. They were similar in all respects 10
those found in the fluid taken from the
breast. He then dissected the tibialis ante
rior muscles of the leg. including a small
portion of the surrounding flesh. The mus
cles presented a granular appearance, as If
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the doctor presumed were parasites.
The Investigations were conducted by DIR.
Clark. assisted by DIR. Tyrell, and neither
of them nor any of the faculty who have
been asked their opinion are able to explain
the presence of what they regard as para
site phenomena. A further examination of
the muscle will be made, and il is expected
that some light will be shed upon what is
now a mystery.
The physicians think that the parasites
FASTENED death, if they were not the imme-
diate cause, while the symptoms OF typhoid
remained TO the end. They were aggrava-
ted by the pains and soreness, and throb-
bings especially. and death came sooner and
more suddenly than in cases of unmistaka-
bic typhoid.
The baby had been pining for some time
before his mother was taken sick. but as
soon as he WAS weaned he recovered his
health, and is now more robust than ever
He was not weaned until his mother was
confined to her bed. The doctor reports that
he examined the child's blood, which was
perfectly healthy.