The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-09-04

DEATH FROM HYDRoPHoBIA.-Louls Null
ter, OF No. 791 Ninth avenue. who was
taken to the Ninety-ninth-Street Reception
Hospital on Tuesday with symptoms Of
hydrophobia, died in that hospital on the
evening of the same day. The history Of
the case, in brief, is as follows:
A large Spitz dog, owned by neighbor
of Multcr, attempted to bite one OF Nlulter's
children on the afternoon Of July Sd, but
simply bruised the arm, making no in
clsion. Multer, hearing OF this, became
greatly enraged, and started to find
the dog, with the intention OF killing
it. He went upstairs and found the dog
scratching ut the door Of his room, the
owner of the dog being in the room at the
time. AS he opened the door the animal
followed him into the room. Multer seized
it and threw 1t out of the window, but in
doing so the dog bit him on the right hand.
The dog was killed by the fall. Multer
went to the nearest druggist and had the
wound cauteriZed, and it healed entirely in
about one week. No unpleasant symptoms
followed until last Sunday afternoon, when
he went to neighboring beer saloon. and
while there fell asleep in a chair, with his
head thrown back. He slept this way for
about two hours, and when he awoke
he complained that the muscles OF his neck
felt very Stiff but attributed it to the posi-
ton in which he had been sleeping. He
slept well on Sunday night, but awoke in
the morning with the same sensation in his
neck. and also with peculiar feeling in his
right shoulder, as il a ball was in the flesh.
He went to his work as usual, but returned
home worse at about 2 O'Clock. His wife
got some whiskey for him, but he could not
swallow it. A physician was summoned,
who, on his arrival, found that symptoms OF
hydrophobia were fully developed. Null
ter was not able to swallow either liquids
Or solids. The attempt to swallow
brought on severe spasms OF the
muscles, both of deglutition and respira-
ton. He was removed to the hospital at
about p. NJ. ON Tuesday. where he was
treated with morphine and atropine, hypo-
dermically, administered, and by injections
Of beef-tea, brandy, and hydrate OF chloral,
which for a time controlled his symptoms
sufficiently to allow him to sleep. Before
the violent delirium began, which was on
Tuesday afternoon, he seemed to fully
realize his danger, and was very demonstra-
tive in his affection toward his wife and
children. ."~} .=78s .rn.,
DR.. Bennett, of the Undergraduates Street
Hospital, states that at the time OF his recep-
ton there OF 6 p Ii. on Tuesday he was so
violently delirious that he had to be made
fast to the bed to prevent bis inSuring HIM
self or others, and that his symptoms were
undoubtedly those Of hydrophobia. He re-
NAMED in violent delirium until about three
hours before his death, when he was tho
roughly exhausted and became insensible.
He fingered in this way until 1880 O'Clock
on Tuesday night, when he died
In the case Of George Foster: Of No. 423
west Fitty-second street, who was reported.
to have been bitten. by the same dog that bit
Multer, and to have shown symptoms OF
hydrophobia, 1t was proved that he had not
been bitten by dog, but had been suffering
from delirfum tremens:.---- Ne,o York TIT
ba,ne, 31st ultirao. i: .@