Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-11-19
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


A LATE Providence tR. ~ special to the New
York Sun says: Last Monday Il little son of
James Molyneaux, OF this city, was taken
down with symptoms of hydrophobia. On
Tuesday the disease was clearly defined. The
child is nine years old, and had been bitten, as
nearly as his parents could learn, some three
weeks before by a cur on the street. All of
the more violent symptoms OF hydrophobia set
in. His cOnvulsious produced the choking
noisc that Is sometimes likcncd to the swapping
of dog, and there was the attendant foaming
at the mouth. While his father and mother
were tending him he bit them both, and it
being impossible to care for him mt home he
was sent to the Rhode Island Hospital.
Last evening Mrs. Moyncaux, the mother
without the slightest premonitlon excepting a
feeling of lassitude, was suddenly convulsed
She was sitting at the time. with some friends
at her residence on Ship street. The spasms
became more violent; frothing at the mouth
and other symptoms that had been noticed in
the boy were observed. It was impossible for
the friends to control her. They say she
snapped at them whenever they approached,
and that this action caused them to remember
that she had been bitten by the little hoy
Harry Mr.. Molyncaux was away, and the
police were therefore notified. An officer
cautiously entered the room and approached
the bed on which Mrs. MOyneaux was lying
! of temporary relief, but the moment she saw
the officer she sprang at him. The officer
for a few minutes had terrible str11g-
gle. He could have mastered the
woman easily, but he feared that in the
struggle that would be necessary she
might bite him. He seized the bedclothes and
wound them I'm great bunch around his arms,
and thus protected himself. He also shouted
| for help, and shortly three officers arrived
| Mrs. MolyneauX's house being but short dis
| tance from the station. Tho officer then, using
the bedclothes to protect himself, forced Mrs
| MolyneauX as gently as possible back to the
bed and threw the blankets quickly over her
face. In second the other officers, with the
police surgeon, who had arrived with an am
bulancc, had secured Mrs. Molyneaux, and she
| was taken to the hospital. Sergeant Runkin,
| of the police, says he never saw more terri
| bic sight than was this woman's condition
| when they were binding her. He describes
| her utteranceS as almost perfect limitations Of
| the growing of a dog, and says she would set
her teeth and snap as dogs do. The most pain
ful part Of 1t all was that Mrs. Molyneaux
seemed fully conscious, and her mental suf-
ferings were greater than the physical.
| Mr. MOlyneaux, the husband who was also
bitten by his son. was at his place of busi-
moss, being employed in some capacity at
night in the steam-mills. He did not know
| this morning of his wifc's condition, and the
officers Of the mill were anxious to keep the
| fact from him.
Some years ago, when there was what might
! almost be termed an epidemic of hydropho-
bia in the Connecticut Valley, a man in the
| last paroXysms bit his attendant The physi-
| clans watched tie attendant for some months,
intending to make Il careful study of the
disease, but the attendant was never the
| worse for the bite.