Telegram-herald., 1890-04-19
AN INSTANT DEATH
A Woman Drops Dead II . Doc
tors Once.
4 Ten YEARS FlCHT FOR HER LIFE
MRS. Mary A Crsne's sands OF Life sud
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Last evening about hSlf-past hye
O'Clock Mrs. Mary Adele Crane dropped
dead While taking medical treatment IL
the orice Of DR.. Kennedy. in the Her
mit4ge, corner Of Canal and East
Brdge-sts. Deceased MAS q widow
woman IS years OF age. living with her
aunt, Mrs. j. L. Root, OF No. 81 Shaw
mut-ave. She has long been victim
OF pulmonary difficulty. and had been
taking the ozone treatment for several
months. Yesterday, just as she had
completed the treatment for the day,
her head suddenly dropped upon her
shoulder, and she sank 10 the floor and
expired.
Coroner Locher was notified, and the
body OF the deceased was taken TO the
undertaking rooms of Allen Durfee.
The coroner viewed the remains, and
a jury will be impaneled this morning
at o'clock.
Mrs Crane was former resident of
Kalamazoo, where she lost her husband
last September. Since then she has
made her home with her aurt, Mrs
Root, on Shawmut-ave. Mrs. Root was
seen at her residence last evening, and
the following facts obtained. Mrs.
Crane has been suffering invalid for
the past ten years. Her bad health has
manifested itself IN various ways, but
all her ills have been supposed TO result
from disease of the lungs. Lately, she
has been very miserable, indeed. Yes
terday morning she felt particularly
weak, and her aunt noticed, IN her ap-
pearance, that some change for the
worse had taken place IN her condition.
Notwithstanding. she persisted, IN
the face of mild protests, in full
filling an engagement TO spend
the day with friends on the hill, insist
ing that she would feel better after
taking her days treatment. Here the
reporter was particular 10 enquire what
had been the effect of the peculiar
treatment she had been taking. "There
is no doubt IN our minds" replied Mrs.
Root, "that the treatment has kept her
alive, some times even giving us hope
of cure" The arrangement. yester-
day. was that Mrs. Crane walk to Lyon
ST. and take the cable car for the hill,
and after her DAVIS visit go to the
doctors and take the treatment, Mrs.
Root thinks this program was carried
out, but do not positively know, since
she did not again see her alive after she
left hom at 10 a. m.
The 1ELEGRAM-HERALD reporter visit
ed DR.. Kennedy's Office in the evening,
and was given every opportunity TO
look into the circumstances of Mrs.
Cranes DEATH The doctor said. first
of all, that be could not state positive
ly the cause of death, since he had
never given the patient an exhaustive
diagnosis. He said that il was so very
evident that the patient was afflicted
with fatal consumption, that he did
not hope to do more than make her re-
naming days as comfortable as possible.
The treatment that he gave he
said, required no technical skill in
application. AMI Mrs. Crane took the
DAYS treatment herself. She had fre-
ouentiy assisted IN giving the treatment
To other paten She had just COM
pleted the treatment when the doctor
came from the consulting room, ands
some conversation passed about the ef-
feet produrel, and the patient made
the remark that she felt somewhat
fatigued. The doctor advised that she
had better desist and sock rest. Here
she sank to the floor, as above stated.
The reporters interest here became
centered upon the apparatus for the
manufacture and inhalation of the
ozone administered to the doctors pa
tients. Ozone is said IN be identical
with the oxygen of the air, existing un-
der greatly changed appearances. as
charcoal and diamond, widely
differing in appearance, are the
same chemical element. The
lightning affords the best familiar
illustration of the process of effectIng
this metamorphosis. After a thunder
storm tine air is more h ayily charged
with ozone. hy reason OF the action OF
the electricity of the lightning upon
the oxygen of the air. DR.. kennedy's
electrical machine is used simply tO
effect the production of ozone III tie
arr treated nv the electric spark. The
patient IN the inhalation of the ozone,
Is not gwen an electrical treatment,
and has thus no connection
with the electrical current. He
simply breathes the air which has
previously been ozonized by the electric
Sn1lk. AEll tue ttttkt iNdl hltatttttt tAk
which the doctor gives Is another pro-
cess. Therefore II is impossible that
the deceased should have received an
electric shock. She NAV have died of
heart disease, but the doctor feels posi-
tive that IL could not have been pro-
duced by the ozone treatment. Douht-
less the best medical skill OF the city
Will be employed IN the investigation TO
awaited with interest by all.