The sun., 1890-06-02
SEVEN DOG BITTEN BOYS.
An THE WAY FROM ILLINOIS TO GET
THEIR LIVES SAVED.
A Subscription Raised Out In III. Joseph to
Pay Their Expenses TO New York-They
Got Their First InoculntlOn Yruterdnv

| A Subscription Raised Out In St. Joseph TO
Pay Their Expenses TO New York-They
Got Their First InocuIRtIOn Yesterday.
Seven boys, aged from l2 to yenrs. got of
train at the Grand Central Station early yes-
terday morning and looked about them eager
| ly In Forty.second street Thor faces were
tanned brown. and they were all In plain coun-
| trv clothes. Two men and woman were with
| them. The party had been travelling since
Friday night from St Joseph. a little village
| OF Champaign county. Illinois, and were bound
TO the rasteur Institute at 17s West Tenth
street. Every one OF the seven boys had been
bitten on Sunday. May 25, by a dog which de-
veoped violent attack OF rabies and died two
days later.
The children were PLAYING with a crowd OF
others In the village streets on Sunday after
noon when they were attacked by monRrel
puppy three months old. which had the free
dom OF the town and which nobody owned.
Marshall Gallon, q boy Of II. waslbitten on the
left hand Ore Shreve. II years old. ON the left
wrist and hand; William McCullom. years
old on the right arm; James McCullom. his
brother, on both arms Charles Estos Hardy.
II years. on the fingers OF the right hand /;
Thurlow s. Hart. Q years. on the little finger
OF his right hand. and Floyd Harvey. years
old. on the right arm. The dog was captured
up. Then It was found out that he had been
bitten three weeks before BY another dog
which had had an unmistakable attack OF
rabies. On Tuesday Of last week the puppy
died In agony. and his body was handed over to
Prof. BurrouGh OF the Illinois state University.
who has inoculated several rabbits with bits
will develop in them. DR.. l. i. Purcell. the
local physician OF ST. Joseph, caulerized
4S HrspnsG SGudf o Dr. of bsr as sd Rhd IS IA and cnSc S
OF the Pasteur Institute here that he had seven
hydrophobia patients and wanted to know on
Gibier ,telegraphed back that they, would be
treated regardless of their means. A subscrp-
and reintives OF the children in the town, and
James McCplom, the father of two of the
eGys tho e. wFb hs 4hs MS9tb9 OF the od
aunt Of another boy. started East with the
little band that night, Or. Gibier arranged TO
O'Clock yesterday afternoon. the hour at which
al his patients receive their daily treatment.
M in or the mean TING 0pnd Wsit
teenth street. whore they will remain for the
fifteen days that the treatment lasts.
was almost filed with patients. There were
five men besides the seven children. While
Rev. b hompson Of I %Ro has
been under treatment for six days. was assur-
ing the boys that they wouldn't be hurt, DR..
Glbier's French assistant came to the doors
and oeckoned the boys into tho back paIlor.
They huddled in one OF the corners OF the Doc
nineveal-o old boys was chosen llrst. His right
side was barred Just above the hip, and hypo:
dermc injection OF the weakest solution OF
virus was given. The left eide was treated in
tho same way The boy let out one or two
screams as he felt the pricks Of the needle.
one bv one the others received the injection.
Some Of them we're badly scared.
Floyd Harvey. the baby OF the lot. bright
little fellow In dresses. took 1t like man.
The last of the boys to be inoculaled was
Young Gallon, the oldest Of them all. He was
80 thoroughly frightened that his father had
TO come in and help to hold him. He had be-
come so wrought up that he yelled at the top
of his voice when the Doctor first painted his
skin with the disinfecting solution. None OF
the children has developed any symptoms Of
the dsease yet. and DR.. Gibier says that there
is no danger now. They will lie inoculaled
with stronger and stronger virus for two weeks. |
when their treatment will be complete.
The hev. Dr. Thompson and Judge Master |
son of BraZoria, Texas then took their daily |
dose. The last patient was middIe-aged
The injection he received was strong enough |
TO have killed the boys within an hour. tho |
Doctor said, II il had been used on them first. |
This patient however. has heen inoculated ,
for eleven successive days, and his term Is |
nearly no,