The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-10-19
HYDRoPHoBIA.

TerF4ble Suffering and Death Of . Little
Girl In Chicago from Hydrophobi-
Caused By the Bite Of . Dog.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, Oct. Q.
Pauline 8. Hartman, aged nine years, Of
1880 Arnold street, in the town Of Lake,
died Saturday night Of hydrophobia. She
was bitten by little black and tan dog on
August 2, but the animal was killed the
next day. As they understood that the
death Of the dog removed all chances OF
hydrophobia attacking the person bitten,
the parents let the matter drop from their
minds, and with the healing of the wounds
1.-TWO severe bites on the right leg above the
ankle), all danger was supposed to be at an
end. Last Tuesday night, nine weeks after
the child had been bitten, she was taken
sick with all the symptoms of a bilious at.
tack. These symptoms continued until
Thursday, when she complained of pain
In the foot, and later the pain became gen.
eral and appeared to pass all through the
body. Friday she was well enough to eat
breakfast, but at noon she became alarm.
ingly i'll, and DR.. ]. F. Abel was called in.
She then had symptoms Of ordinary tetanus.
She refused water, as the effort to swallow
it caused violent paroxysms, and a sense
of suffOcation. The sight of fluid of any
kind threw her into spasms. She felt un.
comfortable, low-spirited and respondent,
and had an underlined feeling of anxiety or
dread, and complained of giddiness and OF
alternate chills and flashes of heat. Then
followed slight morbid sensations, emanat.
ing from the cicatrized wound. The case
was easily recognized as one of hydropho.
bia. The child would lie on her bed per.
fectly conscious, the froth coming from her
mouth, and would talk nationally, even
when the fever was burning her up and her
l. l,aI
sary to give her medicine she would shrink
10 the further side of her bed, her eyes
would bulge from her head, and throwing
up her hands as though some terrible mon.
ster was about to attack her she would
shiver and give vent to means, followed by
sspecies of barking, caused by the CLOTHS
not opening when she desired to speak, and
the effort producing the short swapping
sound. The pain was then apparently cen.
tered in the chest and the back of the head.
She continued about the same during the
night, being able to eat only apples. She
slept about half an hour Friday night, and
Saturday morning the spasms were less fire.
quent. She complained great deal of a
pain in the heart and would cry out that her
heart was breaking. In the afternoon the
spasms returned with great force and she
would cry out so that she could be heard a
great distance. She did not become vicious
toward those around her, but would clutch
bne Deu-clOJueS COHNulSlVely anu SILK neT
fnger-nails into her flesh and tear great
long strips from her body. AT about four
o'clock she revived and the fear of water
left her. She drank freely of water and
milk, but soon she was again afflicted with
,pasms. AS night fell and light was
brought into the apartment where the little
sufferer lay she rose in her bed with
violent scream, then tried to hide under
the bed-clothes, and showed other manifes-
sations of great fear, a look coming into
her eyes that those present say they can
never forget These were the symptoms of
photophobia, and afterward the room was
Shrouded in almost total darkness. At
nine o'clock she answered the query of how
she felt, saying she was ''all right" and
that the pain had gone. Then she requested
that her bed be made and she would go to
ileep. This was done, and the little suf-
,erer, who had borne so much pain with
mch a brave heart, laid over on the soft
bed, and without n word, or sigh, or 9
moan, breathed her last and the spirit de-
parted. The death was a surprise and
Ihock to all who were present.