The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-17
Brothers and a Neighbor's
ChIld Bitten by the Same Big
Black Dog-The Doct,rs
Fearing for one Of tho
Brothers.

Or. Hagen and DIR. Dleffenbach wer
10 almost constant attendance upon tn
child yesterday at her fathers house
y Blum street, Newark. They CAV,
her, at frequent intervals, morphin,
aud curare blood poison. The latte,
drug Is administered to prevent tn,
commissions, from which the child suf
fers. Minnie lay upon a longe, except
when carried In the arms of her Sun
day school teacher, Mrs. Taber. Hel
fever gave color to her cheeks anc
frightened her large blue eyes, and al
times she had a wild look. Neverthe.
less, she was conscious, and showed
much patience aud an amiable dispose
ton, winning warm praise from the
physicians. She has been told from
the first that she has diptheria.
Don't tell papa" she said yesterday,
TOR he will be frightened about me >
She is very fond Of her father. Her
mother is dead. She said to the Rev.
Mr.. Mcbride:
Il am ready to die, and would like to
go and be with III if | did not
have to leave papa here"
Anything that excites the child brings
on a CONFUSION.
The waving of this handkerchief be-
fore her face would do it," said DR.. Ha
gen, ''or the sight Of water, or an injec
ton Of morphine, anything which she
fears
The commissions thus far have not
been violent. They show themselves
by the contraction Of the muscles of the
neck and upper part of the body. But
it is expected that if one of the %convul-
sions does not end her life they will
gradually wear her out, SO that she will
die of exhaustion Last evening the
physicians regarded her condition as
worse than on Tuesday night. Her
pulse was higher. very little from l2O
beats per minute, while respiration was
very slow. The injections Of curare
are given every two or three hours.
As the child can swallow nothing,
she is nourished artifcially. Yesterday
she craved wa.ar. but knowing that it
would give her "a CONFUSION she re-
pressed her desire for it, and only once
or twice asked for it. Ice in a small
bag Vas put into her mouth, and, as she
could not see the water thus taken, no
CONFUSION followed. Sometimes troth
issued from her mouth.
The first symptom of hydrophobia
manifested itse f Oh Monday night. The
child choked In her sleep, and upon
being awakened said her throat was
sore, and she felt something heavy on
her chest. On Tuesday morning she
could not swallow coffee. Every time
all effort was lua1e she choked. Soon
she became nervou and feverish,
and DIR. Hagen. upon seeing her said
at once that her had hydrophobia.
Charlie Lee, who is 10 years old, just
one year older than his sister Minnie,
and who was bitten by the same dog,
was taken TO a neighbours house yester-
day. His school teacher, Mr.. Day,
said last evening that he had noticed
that the boy had been since he
was bitten. Other teachers in the
school had also observed it. The phys
icians hardly expect that Charlie will
escape his sisters fate. In fact, they
we're informed yesterday that in the
morning the boy, in trying to drink,
choked just as Minnie did on Tuesday.
1t was thought last evening that IN a
few hours he would also be Frustrated
by the disease. Yesterday morning he
ran into the house and said:
A boy told me that Minnie is mad.
l. it true?"
The reply that she was not mad
did not seem to allay his excitement.
Paul Lee, aged If, who was also bit
went to his work as usual yesterday,
in a sash and blind factory. He has
been anxious since Minnie became sick,
and has been sent TO live in a friend
house.
Drs. Hagen and Dieffenback insist
that the children could not have been
bitten By Ferdinand Krueder's big mas
tiff. The biting occurred on the even
lug of New Years Day. Minnie and
Charlie Lee started to go to u store hear
their house, and when opposite krue-
der's house the girl was attacked by a
dog. The beast knocked her down
and bit her in eight places, wen fasten-
ing his teeth In her cheek. Charlie
seized the dog around the neck and
him off of Minnie. The boy held
fast TO the dog until Minnie had run
upon the stoop of her house, but before
he got away himself he had received a
bad bite on the arm. Paul and Char
lie soon left home to inform their father
what had occurred. Mr.. Lee was at the
house of a friend in the neighborhood.
The boys had gone only a short dis
tanee before one said:
Suppose the dog should come
Almost Immediately the same dog
appeared and bit Paul in the arm. A
minutes later Laura Multi, who
lives next door to Krueder, was bitten
both hips. The wounds of all the
children were cauterized the same night
and aflerward.
As was said in the Sun yesterday,
Kruedcr was indicted for keeping a
dangerous dog, and was compelled by
Judge Carter to kill the beast.
REIDsvILLE, n. c., Feb IA