The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-07-24

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A Woman Dies and Returns to Life.
HER TRIP TO sUMMERLAND, AND WHAT SHE SAW
THERE-A VERY REMARKABLE CASE.
TKansas City Times.J
Mrs. Diana Powellson, widow of. the late
Thomas Powellson, resides upon land rent
ed from Mr.. William Chick, seven or eight
| miles south OF Kansas City. She is forty
enc years OF age, and the mother OF nine
children. Up 10. three years ago she bad
been a remarkably vigorous woman. On
the '1st Of August. 1876, y premature labor
induced the disease which has now culmi
mated as described below. DR.. Thorne was
Grst called to her in December, 1877, and
found her laboring from severe spasms, the
head and heels being drawn together in q,
backward direction. The attacks came on
every day about 4 O'Clock, and would not
leave her until about 2 or 8 3o'clock the next
morning. This had been going on for. sew.
eral months before -, !,
DIR. THoRNE SAW HER. .1l<3s+.
He found what he then and still presumes
| to be cancer OF the stomach and alteration
OF the liver, also spinal Irritation in the
ceryical region. Under treatment, the
spasms were allayed :; in few days the
spinal irritation seemed to give way. the
| liver liberated and discharged its contents
into the stomach. She then became easy
for several months, was enabled to walk
around and moderately enjoy herself. At
tackS. however, OF irritation OF the
liver, would ut times superyene. Upon
five occasions extensive ulcers have
discharged themselves into the sto.
oil
such discharge took place, the spinal irrita-
tion and spasms would recur, although ia a
less marked degree than at first. About
the 1st Of last May she, for the first time
since her illness, left her home to visit her
sister-in-law. Mrs. Kitty Powellson, in
Rosedae, Kan. She, in few days, expe-
rienced attacks of spinal irritation, spasms,
and the usual swelling of the liver. The
spasms continued without remission (com-
plete) from the Sd OF May to the 9th, DUR.
ing which time she took but little nourish-
ment, and Il u l.. t..!.;..
SUFFERED AGoSIEs BEYOND DESCRIPTION.
| On the oath OF May she vomited large
quantities of pus, the enlarged liver re-
ceded, and her physician expected at least
q temporary convalescence. He, was sum-
moned, however, on the 9th at IL r. M. to
Mrs. Powelson's bedside. He found her
unconscious; there were no spasms except
in the muscles OF the neck and the arm; the
head was thrown back upon the shoulders
with such strength that the band could
not be introduced between them. The
bands were clenched so that the strong.
est man could not bend. them; from
the peculiar nervous condition, DR.,
Thorne, supposing bis patient would soon
die, remained with her. The pulse
was then ranging at 110; the respiration,
16 per minute cold, cammy perspiration
all owes the body eyeballs thrown back
ward and upward; no action whatever Of
the (liapraghm she had been blind for sew
eral days. Things continued in this course
without much change until 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 eye
! lids opened, the eyebals resumed their
normal position, the pupils We're Ciated,
and the film 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 back failed to revive her.
She remained in this condition thirty-two
minutes, at 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, anu contiuueu uuIli nSe I'LL u'oe .
before 8, when sheagain died. For period
| OF over three hours, or till eight minutes
past 6, there was no signof life. The large
, stethescope Of DR.. Thorne was applied to
all positions OF the lungs. heart, and chief
arteries; no sound whatever could be
detected except at intervals of six or
eight minutes, when Slight motion
of air could be heard under the thy
roid cartilage. This was so slight that
1t could not be detected by the unaided
ear; no sign Of respiration appeared to the
eye; the instrument only revealed it; the
arteries at this, time would give a long,
thrilling sound, more like a quiyer than a
puisation, when all would be still again
Z from eight minutespast 8 until about 10 She
lay in spasm as before. the teeth violently
clenched, when the spasms suddenly re.
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