The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-08-27
By A MANS BITE.
Il 10 Safer to be Bitten by Twenty
Dogs than by 0ns Angry Man
The Rapidly With which the Poi.
son Acts and Ito Vifulence.

The Rapidly with which the POI.
son Acts and its Virulence.
From the N.w York sun.
The death Of ". J. Ru..~ll. Of 2li
Franklin sireet, Grsenpoini. BROOKLYN. On
Friday. resulted from = wound that va. in
6ic,~l hy . tenant, Thomas Kelly. With his
teeth. il was \ small cut ON the sec"nd fin.
ger e the lett hand.
Tie Lou-e oxn~i by Mr.. Russell j. divid.
Ell into ,wo d~elling.. each IL shich con
tain. three cr four sAmiiie-. The landlord
rssi..rd in one. Thomas Kelly hired the
iron, half III the second story, aud Mr..
Sesr-on the rear :oo,us. One evening in
March Ia; the d~ellegs in the sec nd story
had Ill drank pretty freely, and in = vrsn.
gle Kelly hea; Mr.. Sssv-on. knocsinx her
down. On the next day her husband met
Kelly "n the street and beat him in return.
The fight vas r~newed nj hom- on the y {!
of March. Complaint of their n";.y d;-"r.
der reached Mr.. Russell. lie had rsmon.
siraI-,i with them, aud attempted To act as
pencemasss.
Kelly Sc: upbn him ~i,h n club. with
wi,cl, b. gave him u terrible blow upon
the head. Thcn he seized hi- finger between
his teeth ard III, il woifi.hiy. When Officer
Ilslsnes, of the t;rrenpoint Police Squad,
rushed int" the house, Russell vac 0senacesl
BY an iron bar in the uplifte,l hand 81
Kelly, and its imminent descent would
have crushed his sknil and killed him.
The first prsctiiionrr that Mr.. Russell
visited "a. Dr.. l.. Z. Van Giesen. OF 81
Kent street. ';re~nPoins. DR.. Van Giesen
said ye-,a.isy: u hSd very little 4" d.
wI,h ihi. rs.-. Il wa, twn or three days
after ,h.. bi,irg that Mr. Russell came to
me. I immediately advised him To- have
the whole finxsr amputate,i. and predicted
that he would have serious trouble With IL
| IL he dii nct len 80. lie went swav seeming
to hc "f1cnde.i. ] heard no more IL il for a
month. II must nave been more than four
| weeks ai'eTward that he vert To the hospi-
tai. aud il wss then too late tn check the
progress III the p"i.on nv tine mere cutting
ID r. the finger. Ey .he time the second
operation took place there must have l,e~n
.ii!l les. hope fnr his cure.
81 have hsd f-s c,se- Of mayhem an.
der treatment. To one man ! gave the
same advice that I lid tn Rus.:iI, aud he
. bru-,i'lelv rejected III. He hal little
! abra .ior near he end "i his thanb. Some
time ai,erw .rd he returned aud IL va
| then NECESSARY tn amrntsie the entire hand
sni wrist. The in6smstion uss "niy
checked ny applying the most p"werfu!
car.iics that are known. ARotheF man Uho
refused Ia submit to ampn,aiion when ut
fir-i proposed. die,l from the ~ry-ip-I.s in.
durrd hy the poison. Why. ! Ind rather
lie hi,,en hy t~o-yy--, tweniy-dogs than
me man. The virus, I believe. IL in the
.alivs, and !. mo,t deadly when the psrson
vho bites IL enragej."
The irs, operation upon Rn--e!l uaa per.
formed BY DR.. Alexander b. Mott. Of So
Msdi-cn svenue. DR.. Mott said ls.t even
ing: THE bitten finger when shown to me,
VAS swollen 10 four times its nominal sise.
The wound va in the second joint. The
hone was d;.es.ed, and IN n,cera,ion had
beenn. After the operation he apparently
did sell The end 81 the finger healed
up"
The second operation vas performed By
DR.. Mott. assistant, Dr.. Jane. r. Taylor,
Of l3i f .st Twelfth street.
lie took out the whole Of the second I'm
ger, including the metacarpal b"ne. This
wound, too. apparently healed. But, mean
while. there had been absorption Il the
po,son in he higher glands, and an ahsce-s
formed in the palm II the hand. All the
vessels were diseased. Pyaemis erysipelas
followed. There Was death Of the bone.
After Mr.. Russell returned home the
wound, from which no blood had come in
the operation. commenced bleeding. The /.
probable cause wss the eating al an nicer !
into large blood vessel. Thu. weakened
the patient all the more rapidly suceumbed. /.
The Younger DR.. Mott. son Of the former.
visited Mr. Russell twice in Greenpoint.
lie thought the Gaze not very nnl,snsl !
one. Erysipelas wonld follow from any ,
rssi.oaei wound He did not think thar
anger ronld make the bite Of men more
dangerous. Exactly What the viru. il. il
not known.
The elder Dr. Mott said that he fire.
luenily had cases like Rus-ell's under
treatment at the Dispensary, and had seine
lines taken quart Of matter from . sin.
gle gland in the arm-pm. The action Of
he poison Vas very much like that
in dead human Tissues, the effect
II which. when inoculsted in the human
ys,em. il invariably fatal. 4
Dr.. McCr-.ry. of Bellevue Hospital. aaid
hat any bite penetrating the eony Tissues
rss very likely to be very serious.
A nev~lealer. Who lives in the house Of
he late Mr. Rn.ell. and Who attended him
n hiA las, hours. said that the patient wa
hree days and nights in dying. In life he
lad been very robust man. After the
norti6cstion began, he did not move ex. :
-ps in breathing. and the greater part Of :
lie body va cold. iii. eyes stared At the
eiling. and his breathing was thick and /,
hort. Exactly At 3 o'clock on Friday he ,
ave . great gap and expired. The q
uly wAs buried yesterday at 3 O'Clock.
BISMARCK GROVE.
he Grand National Temperance