The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1879-07-22

TUESDAY, JULY q, 1879.
FHE DocfoRs DUPED.
A wo4sn Dies and Comes to Life
Again.
Frem the Kansas City Times.
Mrs. Diana Powellsor. widow Of
the late Thomas .Povsllson.- resides
upon lind rented from Mr.. William
Chick, seven or eight miles southwest
of Kansas City. Sife is lorty-one
wears Of age. epd the mother of nine
children. Up to three years ago sbd
had been q remarkable vigorous
woman, On the Let Of. August, 1876.
a premature labor induced the disease
which has now eliminated as described
below. DR.. Thorne was first called to
her in December, 1877, and found her
laboring from severe .spasme, the
head and heels being drawn together
ia q back ward direction. The attacks
came on every day about 4 O'Clock,
and would not leave her till about 2 or
3 o'clock the next morning. This had
been going on for several months
before
DIR. THoRNE SAW HER.
He found what he then and still
presumes to be cancer of the stomach
and ulceEation of thei liver, also
spinal irritation in the cervical region.
Under treatment, the spasms we're
allayed; in . few days the spinal
irritation seemed to give away, the
liver liberated and discharged its
contents into the stomach. She then
became easy for several months, was
enabled to walk around and moder-
ately enjoy herslf. Attacks, however,
of irritation of the liver would at
times supervene. Upon five Occa-
sions extensive, ulcers have discharged
themselves into the stomach. Upon
all such occasions, until such dis
charge took place, the spinal irrita-
ton and spasms would recur, though
in q less marked degree than at first.
About the LIST of last May she. for
the first time since her illness, left her
home t. visit her sister-in law, Mrs.
Kitty Powellson, in Rosedale, Kas.
She, in a few days. experienced
attacks of STANDARDIZATION spasms
and the usual swelling of the liver.
The spasms continued without re-
mission (complete). from the Sd of
May to the 9th. during which time
she took but little nourishmeDt, and
SUFFERED AGONIEs BEYOND DEsCRIP.
On the oath of May she vomited
large quantities Of pus. the enlarged
liver receded, and her physician
expected at least . temporary con-
valescence. He was summoned, how
ever. on the 9th, at III p. M, to
Mrs. Powellson's bedside he found
her unconscious there were no
spasms except in the muscles Of her
neck and the arm the head was
thrown hack uphn the shoulders with
such strength that the hand could
not be introduced between them.
The hands were clenched SO that the
strongest man could not bend them |;
from the peculiar nervous condition,
DR.. Thorne. surprising his patient
would soon die, remained with her.
The pulse was then ranging at no;
the respiration Is per minute. Cold,
clammy Precipitation all over the body,
eyeballs thrown backward and up
ward /; no action whatever of the
diapraghm she had been blind for
several days; things continued in
this course without much change until
1 o'clock in the morning, when she
died. The spasms of the neck and
hands now relaxed, the head dropped
forward upon the breast, the eyelids
opened, the eyeballs resumed their
normal position. the pupils were
dilated and the finn gathered upon the
eyes,
THE WOMAN WAS DEAD.
A current of electricity passed
from the base of the brain to the
lower portion of the hack failed to
revive her.
She remained In this condition
thirty-two minutes, ut the end of
which time she sat up in bed and
called for coffee which she drank
after drinking it the spasm returned
as before, and continued until five
minutes before three, when she again
died. For . period of over three
hours or till eight minutes past six
there was no sign of life. The large
siethescope of DR.. Thorne was applied
to oil positions of the lungs. heart
and chief arteries no sound what
ever could be detected except at
intervals of about six or eight
minutes, when . slight motion of the
air could be heard under the thyroid
cartilage. This was 80 slight that
it could not be detected BY the
unaided ear; no sign of respira-
ton appeared to the eye. the
instrument only revealed it;
the arteries At this time would
give . long. thrilling sound, more
like q culver than . pulsation, when
all would Be still again from eight
minutes past s until about 10 she
laid il q spasm - before, the teeth
clentched, when the spasms
relaxed,
AND SHE DIED AGAIN.
DR.. Thomas was not present at this
time, bat being hastily summoned, he
found the room cleared of furniture,
and all preparations made for laying
her out. She continued in this
spasm about forty-five minutes.
For over forty-eight hours from this
time she was continually in spasms. |
except when she ceased to breathe and |
her heart pulsate, which was q fro
quent occurrence, the attacks lasting !
from Eve to thirty minutes.
On the ID of June she was free of
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