The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-02-04
a WOMAN,S DEATH FROM HYDRO.
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found them, taking them home and
caring for them until thew
were restored to health and plunpness,
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 was at
tracted one evening to the sidewalk by the
yelping of two poodles that she had let out to
play. She saw strange little dog trying,
as she 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 bled
slightly, but she regarded it as 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 q neigh
Dor and never thought that it might have
been mad. Whether the dog was mad or
not, the doctors and friends have been un-
able to ascertain, and all 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 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 az ever,
but on Thursday the feeling of tiresomeness
| returned, accompanied by pains in both arms
and something like intercostal neuralgia. Dr.
James Collins, of $50 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 n.y.
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 DR.. Collins had doubted be-
! fore, he was now convinced. He learned
that on the previous evening she
| had come to Mr.. Lawson for q 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 drea
of something and extreme restlessness and
irritabiiity. 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
|
three hours afte-warl, she had to be brought
home again. DIR. Collins now called upon DR..
Charles w. Miles for assistance, and the
two, after talking over the matter with DR..
F. II. Gross, DR.. E. Santee and Dr. Charles
Turnbull, decided upon course of treat
| ment to which they ascribe the subsequent
abfence in this case of that violent CT nvnlsive
action which in other victims of hydropho-
bia LAS necessitated holding by several
strong men or tying fast to bed.
FIGHTING THE DISEASE,
The principal remedy used was sulphate
Of the South American Indian war-arrow
poison, called curar or woorara. Among
| othter palliative agents employed were
camper and opium.
The doctors desired to paraIyze to GER
tain extent the muscles that produce spasm.
The sulphate, called curare or woorara
was administered bypodermically in filtered
solution, each injection containing 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 she complained of thirst
water was brought and'placed in her hand,
'whereupon she exclaimed, shudderingly: "Oh,
I can't drink Dropping the glass she con-
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 exertion
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 well.''
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 frothv, 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 spasnas 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 out Although suffering in
tense agony with the symptoms described,
DR.. Collins says that the spasms we're 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
| with other deaths from hydrophobia hers
was an easy one.
| THE IRISH FAMINE OF 1847.
Parnn]l Reiterates Els Charge Against
Queen Victoria.
New YORK, Feb. lin reference to the state
ment made recently by Parnell. that Queen
Victoria contributed nothing in 1o47 to the
Irish famine, the denial of which statement
Lord Randolph Churchill has cabied here
Parneli has addressed a letter to the New York