Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1872-08-08
A Terrible Case of Hydrophobia.

A late number of the Detroit Fr1,
Press contains an account of the horrible
death in that city of boy about thirteen
years old, who had been bitten by a dog
about nine weeks before he was attacked by
that terrible disease, hydrophobia. The
boys name was Carlos Schmidt, and L was
employed as carrier. of German newspa-
per. After he was bitten, a doctor was
summoned to dress the wound, but he did
not seem % fear that any evil might re-
suit from the bite, and therefore Sc wed il
up, and went away without cauterizing
it. The lad soon got over the pain. and
in few days carried his paper as usual
He, however, complained frequently that
he had no appetite, and from being a lively,
wide-awake lad, he or W to be SO quiet
and serious that his parents feared he was
about to be attacked with sickness. The
wound healed up, and yet not entirely.
At times it festered, like a cut when one
takes cold in the wound, and several
times the lad complained of toothache,
although his teeth were ali sound.
The Free Press ays:
Nothing of the real nature Of the case
was suspected unit. Wednesday evening,
when the lad complained of toothache. OF
being giddy aud of fee ling nausea. His
mother became alarmed and took him to d
neighbors, who advised her to get doc
tor without delay, as the child looked to
him like one Just out of fit. A doctor
was called. but he did not suspect what
allied the lad, ordering him to be put to
bed and leaving sumo simple medicine
An hour after the boy leaped out of bed.
wild with terror, and shouted: 1.-The
dogs are after .me-keep them OFF, HIS
mother put him back OH the bed, anG
when he snapped ut her and frothed Il:
the mouth she ralled in help at once
knowing that he was mad. However
the boy got easier, the mediciae acting
fayorably, and Thursday he was able t'
sit up some His eyes had a wild look
and he spoke sbutl little. yet he did no.
show further sigrs of hydrophobia unit.
dark Thursday night, when the dreadful
symptoms r;turned.
lie fist exhibited them by seizing the
pillow slips and sheets and tearin them
with his teeth.an be snapped savagely al
every hand stretclel lie him. DIR
Mulahern. and subsequently DIR. McGraw,
who was called in consultation, at oEce
decided that it was case of bydrorhobia,
aud chat there was no help for the boy
In the evening the patient became so vio-
lent that his father, strong man, could
not hold him on the bed, and three men
we're called in to watch him during the
night. As the paroxysms grew stronger
the boy had to be tied down to prevent
him from leaping off the bed, and attack
ing the watchers, it requiring the efforts
of two men to hold his hands while third
crossed and lasbed them. There were
times when the boy had his senses. and
during these moments he would tell them
that he knew he was going to die, and he
asked that priest might be sent for.
There were intervals during the night
when it seemed as if the boy would tear
the bed to pieces with his teeth and feet.
Nearly all the time, after the horrible
malady progressed SO that he did not re-
gain his senses, he kcptupa growing and
barking, like a dog greatly angered, and
the froth and the foam on his lips was
often blown across the room. lie would
have paroxysms when he would shiver
like one with the ague, and again he
seemed to be burning up. Nearly the
last words he uttered, was statement
made in whisper that it seemed as if
some one was pouring melted lead down
his throat. All night long herayed and
shrieked. aud yesterday morning, know
ing that he must die, it was suggested that
he be smoothered. But the parents would
not listen to such thing, as no human
person would, and the boy suffered on till
ten o'clock, when he died in such horrible
agony that not man could remain in the
room. An hour before his death he was
seized with a paroxysm which left him
enly with his last breath. During this
attack he leaped to his feet, and though
his arms were crossed and tied, he tore
and scratched at the plastering, leaving
hundreds of marks. Everything which
he could reach he bit. IF hand was ex-
tended he would make a spring at it, as
1og jumps forward to snap, and the clash
OF his teeth coming together c1ou,iia be
heard all over the lauuse. People who stood
on the walk outside, and heard the patient
growing and barking, say that they we're
almost forced to believe that the sounds
were made by dog, as if some one were
annoying him. This was continued until
ocath came as merciful relief no one
ever died more horrible death, or suf
Tered greater agony. In death the face
wore an agonized, frightened look, and
one would have thought it the face OF a
man thirty years old. The fingers were
c,Ienched, the limbs half drawn up. and
the half-open eyes, even though covered
WITH the CLASSY film of death, had an ex-
preston of terror and suffering which will
long haunt every caller. b8fg416
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