The sun., 1891-01-24
GEORGE KENDALL'S TORTURE
Fatal TERMINATION OF HIS SUFFER-
INGS FROM HYDROPHoBIi.

Fatal TERMINA T1ON OF HIS SUFFER-
INGS FROM HYDROPHOBI.i.
Il 10 Said that His Life Might Have Beeu
Saved if the Doctors Had Not Advised
Him that Inoeuiation warn't Necessary.
George Kendall, the young Engllshman from
Arlington. N. j.. who came 10 the Chambers
Street Hospital on Wednesday morning suffer
ing from hydrophobia, died there early yoster-
day morning OF exhaustion. the natural se-
Quence OF the horrible torture he had under
zone while In the convulsions that came with
the disease. As was told in The Sun yester-
day morning, Kendall was bitten bv strange
dog while at work at his employers home In
Arlington. The wound was In tho lip. 1t
healed. and he gave no thought to It until q
week ago. whom tho lip began to swell He
was almost overcome by thirst, yet he could
not swallow water. He became frightened.
Whom he was admitted to the hospital tho
symptoms Of the disease were pronounced. but
the man had not had any convulsions. He ex-
perlencod extreme difficulty In swallowing.
The physicians at tho hospital were skeptical.
They sent for DR.. Paul Gibier OF tho Pasteur
Institute. and he said there was no doubt about
the nature OF the disease. and that Kendall
would surely die. Kendall was put TO bed.
His first convulsion was early on Wednesday
evening. 1t was chiefly confined to the throat
and muscles In tho upper part OF the body. An
hour later there was another more severe than
the first Tho convulslons continued every
hour for several hours, each succeeding one
being moro severe than the others. Kendall
retained consciousness through them all. and
when ho had recovered from one he would tell
tho doctor that he knew he would die.
Kendall was strong man. and tho doctors
and attendants were afraid Of him. 80 they
strapped him down to the cot on which he lay.
Whom he was In spasm he shouted and sworo
and prayed By turns. He was ct timee de-
lerious, but most Of the time he retained his
senses. That made his suffering all the more
terrible He could tell when a epasm was
coming. Then no would say to the doctor and
For GODS sake got ont OF the way. It's
T hs Gs Of sa
n Ss Tosa ts and
from spasm he would beg to BE- Killed. '
rSSometimes he would be still for moment
TSsn s sSSd Sua soSa SH
he would Loudly sry On God to deliver
come moro Violent than any before. lie loaned
at tho mouth. The loor for a distance OF four
feet about the bed was covered with saliva.
% sna ae hs $685. be Rsss Il:
m.rried., She was sent for. but dld not reach
tho hospitai til evening and he had become
with intermissions Of only two or three min:
utes. An hour later they hecame con tinuous; and
died at x. N. During @ the evenine Il the IS san al
OF physicians at the hospital stood in his room
watching him and making % notes notes OF his suier-
him. He began to lose u Strength % at TT 10 q o'coek. &
and from that time his s,ruEgles lessened as
was oyer the doctor. said they had never, Wit
messed more horrible death than KendalPs
.nd M sdss hsn
morpins ThS younE wspaa cried as though
her to look at her lovers body. but they would
snswer Nc 1 Questions as to h0T he died Mr..
dsrs that tho body should be sent TO Arlington.
Coroner, Schultz was notified Of ksndall's
sps sh: \: d0f's ol % sssDss hSS S
2S'f sssy:ss . ~ r. I'm {oeE f.:
s5sportels' ipciudIpps i ' ops from IN syS: Tens
sss !Rssay swsi
ss bS oi %oana tine Sos dos tsen
= hard lnmp the size OF pea in the centre Of
organs, Of the body. and Dr. Van Geisen ,sF-
amined the head and removed the spine. Tho
snect and detailed G report i viii GSsts bs
for medical journals. In substance. what was
or aa 81 g. as Hss
tion Of the coverings Of the brain and OF the
gray matter in the spinal cord. All the ab-
stance Of tho brain was somewhat diminished
IN consistency: From the history Of the caso
Coroner Schultz gave certificate OF donth
from lydrophobia.
nr seyse and p Hsp Gssn t9Sl
and of the gray matter in the chord as It was
tire from sn 'S na also of the
viii be made Of these. and the doctors hope to
find fd thg 81 baSteria T Of hydronnoba. Dr PrIden.
Of PHYSICIANS and Surgeons. will have charge
Of the work at the college
While the autopsy was going on DR.. Abbott
from the Loomis laboratory. .came In and asked
tor small piece OF the spiral column with
which experiments may be made NJ the labora;;
be used to inoculate rabbits and il tho rabbits
dh, ded It would M prove 6e>ond doubt that ken-
%6iis kenIall iva Vas s. suffering % on Thursday
from ne noor Of the room. ana he Inns ipnocu-
@ G t&ai Sd Renys 'sas % 'Saf %,hn
eeived innoenlatIon Of PAsteur lymph he would
he alive to-day. kendaIIs friends resent TIN
hs SAG bzss snd hn! Kf'n se ar asS esd
tod him innocpialion was not necesssry.
book IN which he ,u said ,,, be kept the
Be- trested. Whether lie ,rsnssd tho porson sou Or sr
the book. The Doctor then said that no knew
that the man had GGnc to a cerlatn hospital In
tho city and ha had his wound Dressed there.
Kendall had suggested to the Doctor the al.
Visibility OF hi. going to the institute and
being innocuated. and tho Doctor hal told
him not to 60 DR.. Gibier wonld not tell what
hospital It was whore Kendall got this I'D
vice. He said that probably the doctors did
what they did because they knew no better.
Later in the day THE sun reporter lenrned
| that It was the Chnmlers Street Hospital
where Kendall had had his wound attended to.
and presumably where he got the advice not to
be inoculated. After the doctor at Arlington
hnl dressed tho wound Kendall cAne 10 New
York to the hospital and had it redressed. 1t
was not caut tcrized. Under the treatment he
received at the hospital tho " ,und healed rap
idly. and he was discharged as cured. The
Arlington doctor also, II ia said, advised Ken
dali that 1t was NOT necessary 10 be treated by
tho Pnsteur method. It IL very possible that
! II thbse doctors had not adv sed Kendall he
would be alive to-day. Dr. Gibier Is very sure
he would.
The dog which bit Kendall WAS OF the mon.
Grel type. 1t ran away when he had beaten 1t
otf, and II has not been seen about the Schuy-
ler place. Kendalls death Is the third death
from hydrophobia that has occurred In the
city the past three years.