The New York herald., 1874-07-11
ANOTHER TERRIBLE DEATH.
The Mad Dog Again Tri-
umphant.
A LITTLE BOY DIES IN FEARFUL AGONY.
A Sad Scene at Bellevue
Hospital.
TWO OTHER CHILDREN BITTEN.

TWO OTHER CHILDREN BITTEN.
Another victim has been added to the already
Dng list OF deaths by that most fearful OF all
dreaded diseases, hydrophobia. This time the
unfortunate sufferer was ittse boy, seven years
OF age, named william McGuinnis, who resided
with his parents at No. 81 Essex street and VINO
was bitten by mad dog IN she lip while at play
on May Is last. He was attended to by DR.. Powell,
the police surgeon who was summoned for the pur-
pose. He cauterized the wound with lunar caustio
and sewed 1t together. The boy appeared to suf1er
but little pain. The wound rapidly healed up, and
but little more was thought OF the matter. ON
Wednesday afternoon, however. the boy went into
the honse and complained OF feeling somewhat un-
we'll This was not thought much of, as he had
ove.ineated himself while playing. After resting
short while it was noticed that he appeared to be
unusually quiet He would eat or drink nothing,
ann soon after peculiar
TwITCHING OF HIS MUSCLES
was observed and he became very excltable, 50
much so that he did not sleep during the ensuing
night. On Thursday the boy seemed to bel
frightened at every little thing, and II approached
by ny would Shrek out and could with dillculty
be paci1ed. In the evening he was taken to q
friends house, where he ate OF an orange,
banana and other things, with seeming appetite,
returning homo again at eleven O'Clock. He then
| commenced playing with his father, and while tho
| play was going on began to have violent twitch-
ings Of the muscles throwing himself on the floor
and barking and swapping like dog He was next
attacked with spasms. When somewhat recov-
cred from the first OF these he was induced to eat
some huckleberrtes and to drink dose OF salts.
| He grasped the tumbler
CoNvULsIvELY WITH BOTH HANDS,
and after swallowing one or Two teaspoonfuls Of
the liquid was again attacked with spasms moro
the mouth. His parents, not knowing what 70 do
more for him. took him again to the police sta
nothing @ S 70 aos
pltal at hatpast three A. n. yesterday. He was
placed under the charge OF DR.. Robert A. Murray,
the house physician who gives the following &C.
the patiena had very anxious countenance, tho
| pupils OF the eyes being much dhated. He was
slightly fOannng at the mouth and desired to spit
every few seconds He was attacked with violent
commissions every two or three minutes, writhing
and twisting about in o fearful manner His skin
was hot and perspiring. His pulse was 132 and his
water, which he did convulsiveiy. This threw him
into tetanOd spSsms after swallowing teaspoonful
or So The spasms shorty latter after % tins became very
treated with hypodermic Injection OF morphia,
which, however, produced no effect on The respi.
ration or the pupil OF the eye. After an Interval
| of twenty-five minutes another hypOdermic injec-
ton was administered, but with no better effect
than the last. The patient at this time appeared
| to be suffering intense agony,
he frothed at the mouth. BE was then anesthlzed
with chlOrOform which quieted him for short
while, when he agan suffered from commissions
and became dellrtOus, when II was found neces-
sary to use some forte to restrain him IN hts bed
He finally died In great agony at nve A. NJ yester-
+ day.
| Yesterday afternoon post.nOrtem was made
on the body at the hospital oy DR.. Arnold, the Gu
'rator Of the Bellevue Medical Museum, in ihe pres
snce Of D5s Crane, . Mo1, Young Murray
Coroner DR.. snine. The results obtained
Externally Q cicatrix Of the hight angle OF tho
mouth, extending down the lower np, which had
Ssn n5 "S w Sab n1ss The
found congested and adematous, she apex Of the
| right lung bound down by old peurltic adhesons;
poured out q large quantity Of dark nui, hall
| filing the pleural cavities. The spleen was
adherent to the diaphragm. Liver, some fatty
contained large quantity Of frOthy mucus, which
extended down In the tracoea- Mucus coat OF
both very much congested. Phymus glands large.
l0bes. Cerebelum also much c0ngested. Cutting
through the brain the puncta were well marked,
noor n veTx Uoo %
Medulla oblongata very much congested.
The medula OblOngata and the mrynx were
taken by DR.. Arnold for examination under the
microscope, and for the purpose Of obtaining from
the latter some OF the mucus 20 inject into the
veins OF dog oy way OF experiment
1t has been ascertatned that two other children
| were bitten Dy the same dog and just alter
McGuinness was bitten. but whether they have
suffered any Ill effects therefrom could not he dis
covered.
Another Rite.
| boy was very severely bitten at Even and
Meserole Streets Brooklyn, Z. D., on Thursday
evening, BY a dog which sprang upon him. as he
! passed along the sidewalk from between mans
legs sitting in q store door, Gong directly to