The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-07-17
THE BLACK AND TAN.
A little Girl's Horrible Death From
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From the New York Herald. 18th.

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From the New York Herald, 18th.
After nearly three days of excruciatine
suffering little girl, Ida May Drayton, who
lived on Jersey City Heights, succumbed
yesterday 10 an stack Of bydrol hobis. St'
was about four years Of age and WAS thu
daughter of bake: on Bergen avenue. On
Sunday, June 5, she was going along Com
munipAw avenue with her father when che
stopped TO pet little black and tan dog
On the sidewalk The child was very fond
Of dogs aud unfortunately could not resist
the temptation to stroke every strange
one that came in her way. This cur
sprang at her face and bit her upon
the nose and lip. The wounds bled
profusely as they carried the child to the OF,
hce Of DR.. wilkinson near by, but he bound
4. them up and CAV, tho father some caulerIz,
ing wash, and in few days the wounds had
been healed and forgotten. The dog was u
black and tan, and was shot by policeman
soon after il had bitten the child. TWAS not
supposed to be anything more than vicious,
and certainly no one imagined that the In
iuries rficted upon the child would develop
into terrible case of by drop, obia
So II did, however, upon last Friday morn
ing. Ca Tnursday the child paid visit to
Central Park, where she r0mped with all tho
eagernCss of apparently perfect health. On
Friday morning, beiore leaving her bed,
che asked for glass Of water, but when it
was brought to her she went into sudden
CONFUSION and alarmed her parents go that
they removed her to the house of her grand
mother, on Barrow street, where she could
have careful attendance a d where DR.. Will
kinson was promptly summoned. Between
her spasms tho lutte thing played about the
house, but the sight of anything which sug.
gested the thought of swallowing drove her
into immediate commissions. Even the move
ment of a fan in the
room had the same effect. The
parents seemed to realize The true state OF
affairs from the beginning, and DR.. Wllkin-
son pronounced i. hydrophobia after his first
examination. As he had never treated a
case of the kind. he called in the advice of
Dr. Wilson, Of Jersey City, who has had con-
siderable experience with the dread disease,
and in fact claims to have effected cure IN
more than ons instance. To make sure of
the symphonies. basin of water was brought
for the child to wash her
hands but the sight OF
1t drove her into the most terrible
spasms. The treatment which the physicians
agreed To adopt WAS that known rs the
"wOurari' treatment, which consists in usiug
one strong poison to antsgonze the effects
OF smother. Wourari is Obtained from herbs
and is used by Indians to poison the points
of their arrows.
In small quantities, and with infinite eau.
ton the poison was il jected under the tkin
Of the child, but though il seemed to lessen
the severity OF tho commissions 1t fail'd to
stop them. All day Saturday they continued
at intervals, and between them the child
would complain Of a pain in her stomach.
The doctors hoped that the inability Of the
sufferer to comprehend what was the trouble,
and her cons quent inability 10 think of the
dog bite must assist somewhat toward re.
covery. If II assisted at all it merely served
topostpoae the inevitable result. All Sat.
urdsy night the little girl endured the agony
OF frequent recurring commissions, and
while they we're upon her her limbs were
twisted up and her eyes dila,ed wildly and
protruded from, her head in dreadful man.
ner. Yesterday morning death kindly
brought her tutierings to an end.
DR.. Wilkinson said to Herald. reporter
last evening that although he had treated
perhaps hundred dog bites he had never
before had case of hydrophobia in his long
course of practice, The treatment adopted
was presumed by many physicians to be the
most efllcscious known. The little girl,
however, was so violently affected that II was
impossibe 10 stay the force Of the poison.
He said that he had never before Witnessed
such awful suffering as hers and he hoped
never TO witness it sgsin.