Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-31
philadelphia Times, Jan. %.

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number of features and the absence of
others which, the attendant physicians say,
have seldom if ever before come under their
notice.
Mrs. Mary r. Lindermier, the victim, was
widow who, since her husbands death,
some years ago, carried on the business of
the beer saloon, No. GA North Fourth
street, being assisted by her son, young
mali. She had one remarkable hobby that
all the neighbcrs talked about-a fondness
for raising poodles, of which she had had
five in the house for some time. She had
also habit of picking up homeless or in
jured little dogs wherever she
found them, taking them home and
caring for them until they
were restored to health and plumpness,
when she would seek some neighbor desir
GUS of adopting house dog. Between six
and eight weeks ago-she could not remem-
Der the date, and all efforts to ascertain it
exactly have been unsuccessful-she was at
tracted one evening to the sidewalk by the
yelping of two poodles that she had let out to
play. She saw a strange little dog trying,
as sho thought, to hurt one of the poodles,
and upon her STOPPING to pick up and
carry away her pets the wicked little
stranger snapped at her and left the marks of
his teeth on the back of her right hand, just
above the forefnger. The wound bied
slightly, but she regarded it as a mere
scratch, requiring no attention more than
the application of lotion that she got at
the drugstore just opposite her house. She
supposed that the dog belonged to neigh
Dor and never thought that it might have
been mad. Whether the dog was mad or
not, the doctors and friends have been IN
able to ascertain, and sill efforts to identify
the animal have been unsuccessful.
THE FATAL SCRATCH.
Attending to her duties, as usual, she
seemed perfectly we'll until Tuesday of last
week, when, after ironing a lot of clothes,
she complained of unusual WEAKNESS, and
particularly of sharp, shooting pain in the
right arm. Next day she felt as we'll as ever,
but on Thursday the feeling of tiresomeness
returned accompanied by pains in both arms
and something like intercostel neuralgia. Dr..
James Collins, of 536 Marshall street, came at
her call, and she told him she thought she
had rheumatism. He prescribed some
thing that eased her, and, not suspecting ny
drophobia, he supposed that she was all
right again. Being called on Saturday he
observed peculiar conditions. Crossing the
street to Mr.. Lawson's, the druggist, DR.
Collins remarked that it seemed like a case
of hydrophobia. The druggist recalled the
dog bite and, if DIR. Collins had doubted be-
fore, he was now convinced. He learned
that on the previous evening she
had come to Mr.. Lawson for drink of lem
onade and he observed that she swallowed
it with seeming aversion and difficulty.
When the doctor returned to the house and
brought water in sight of the woman she
showed alarming symptoms-a great dread
of something and extreme restlessness and
irritability. These continuing, she was
taken, by the doctors advice, to the German
Hospital, but there she showed such sus-
picion of everybody's motives and became so
uncomfortable in her spasmodlc actions that,
three hours afterward, she had to be brought
home again. DR.. Collins now called upon DR..
Charles w. Miles for assistance, and the
two, after talking over the matter with DR..
F. III. Gross, DR.. Z. Santee and DR.. Charles
Turnbull, decided upon course of treat
ment to which they ascribe the subsequent
abfence in thisicase of that violent ccnvulsive
action which in other victims of hydropho-
bia has necessitated holding by several
strong men or tying fast to a bed.
FIGHTING THE DISEASE,
The principal remedy used YVES sulphate
of the.,South American Indian war-arrow
othter palliative agents employed were
camper and opium.
Tue doctors desired to paralyze to a GER
kosv &1a hat,
The sulphate, called curare or woorara,
was administered hypodermically in filtered
solution, each injection containing a small
fraction of grain of the poison. On Sat-
urday night when she was quiet and perfect
ly conscious, reference being made to the
dog, she said she did not believe that he was
mad. Then as shs complained of thirst
water was brought and placed in her hand,
whereupon she exclaimed, shudderingly: "Oh,
can't drink" Dropping the glass she con-
tinued spasmodically: "Oh, my heart would
stop. 1t would kill me.'' She took little
ice in her mouth, however, which relieved
her, but next day she could not look even at
the frozen water. Her last drink was on
Sunday morning, when with great exerticn
she swallowed some milk punch. The only
time when she would touch food, after Fri
day, was on Monday afternoon. Her con-
dition seemed better then and she eagerly
ate considerable meat, potatoes and cabbage.
After that she steadily grew worse, her men
tai distress and her evident suffering from
thirst being hard to picture.
She wauld not believe that she had hydro
phobia, or that the dog was mad. "The dog
bite" she said TO DR.. Collins, ''was nothing,
and if you understood the case, I'd get WE'LL"
She was suspicious of everybody, especially
towards the last, when her breathing became
very rapid and heavy, and the temperature of
her body extremely high, while frothy, Wis.,
cid fluid came from her mouth in such guam
titles as to necessitate constant changing of
clothing, towels and other articles. In one of
the spasms on Sunday her terror was increased
by imagining that hair was growing on the
tip of her tongue. She cried to those about
her to pluck it cut. Although suffering in
tense agony with the symptoms described,
DR.. Collins says that the spasms were con-
trolled to great extent by the medical treat
ment. Although conscious until about three
hours before her death, which came from ex-
haustion at half-past five o'clock yesterday
morning, she would listen to no reasoning,
and was extremely whimsical. AS late as
Monday evening she desired to know whether
one doctor was not sufficient. Compared