Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-23
DIED IN
A Little Boy Succumbs to the Effects
OF a Bite Inflicted Nearly
Three Years Ago.

New York Herald.
Frederick Berger, 8 years, IL
months and Is days old, died at 4
o'clock on Sunday afternoon at his
home, No. 743 Eleventh avenue DIR.
j, L. Turner, of No. 233 West Forty
eight street, yesterday filed a oertifcae
with the health authorities stating
that the lads death vas due to hydro
phobia. The certificate was accom-.
panied by q letter written by the
physician, furnishing some further
particulars concerning the case. The
health officials were anxious that .
post norton examination should be
made on the dead boys body
but when DR.. Turner said
there was not the slighest
doubt that death was due to the dis.
ease given, and, as the lads parents
opposed the mutilation of the remains,
o permit was issued for the iuterment
of the body to-day In the Lutheran
cemetery. John Berger, q wood.
=, turner, with his wife and four chill
dren, has for some months past rented
apartments on the third floor Of the
frame house No. 743 Eleventh avenu
Frederick, q bright and intelligent
lad, was the Oldest of the children.
On Tues lay of last week he complained
Of feeling Ill. His mother, thinking
that he wa only suffering from q cold,
applied home remedies, but without
effect. As he continued to grow
worse, on Friday afternoon DR.. Tur-
ner was called In. Upon making an
examination the physician became GOD
WINGED that Frederick was suffering
from some unusual and dangerous
disease. There was q p%erceptible
tremulousness of all the muscles, but
not such as Is seer In cases of tetanua
or spotted fever. The boy was then
In q high state of and
easily frightened.
CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS.
By Saturday morning fever devel'
oped, and the temperature increased
until it reached 1O4 degrees. With
the fever came a spasmodic action OF
the larayx and q slight contraction OF
the muscles of the neck and q drynes.
and construction In the throat. Also
an excessive thirst, but an aversion
for and q horror at the sight of fluids
DIR. Turner wss then able to make Q
conclusive diagnosis, He was con
WINGED by these symptoms that the
boy was suffering from hydrophobia.
All the known remedies were resortec
to, but Notwithstanding all efforts thu
disease developed and con.
WILSON'S ensued. The sigh
of water or any liquid medi'
oine threw the sufferer into . state o
great nervous irrits bility. There wa
! also noticed frothing at the mouth
I and an occasional grinding Of tn,
teeth. The temperature continued
to increase and on Saturday night
reached the highest point-106 de
grees. Little Frederick was by Thu
time greatly exhausted, and the ply
, sician was then convinced that In
few hours the struggle would be over
Although the boy apoaredtly suffered
no acute pains, he rapidly WASTED
, away, and at A o'clock on Sunda,
: afternoon died.
BITTEN NEARLY THREE YEARS AGO
j. The parents for a time could no
remember that their son had beef
I bitten by a rabid animal, but whel
more closely questioned they recol
t lected that Two years and min
l. months ago, while the family wer
living at Newark, N j., Frederick
while playing with a pet spitz dog
3 was bitten on the hand, The anima
was sick at tho time, and after LAGER
ating the child's hand was killed 1
common linsse plaster was applied t
the wound, which healed In q fe'
t. days, and as the boy never complatne
n of the To- ury, 1t vas never thought q
after until his death. The healt
physicians we're surprised that tn
poisonous saliva from the dogs teet
l. should have lurked In the boys systeI
r for such q long time.
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