New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-13
DYING FROM fHYDROPHOBIA.
THE VICTIM A BOY BITTEN A MONTH AGO.
THREE DOCTORS AGREE IN THE DIAGNOSIS All
THOUGH THE DOG is SAID TO BE

ALIVE AND WELL.
Hugo Eitel, seventeen years old, who lives with his
parents at Fifth-avc and one hundred and enth-st
attacked with hydrophobia while in Long Island
City on Tuesday evening. The Young man has been
subject to epeptic fits. and Tuesday was attacked
with one while on the street in that city, lie was
taken to the house Of his cousin, c. j. ReinhaIt No
800 LOckwoOd-st. where restocatives were applied
Early in the evening no went to his room but when
Mrs. Reinhart went up to what his condition was
she found him in the first paroxysm Of hydrophobia
she did not know what the trouble was but called Dr.
Hilebrandt. After examining tbs patient he concluded
that she case hydrOphoba. Drs. Weiss, Of Jamaica
and Compton. of New York, were summoned and YES
terday morning a consultation held. The unan
nous verdict was that it genuine case Of hydro
phobia.
During the night young Eitel suffered the most
intense agony, going from spasm to another in
rapid succession so violent did he become al times
that it took four men TO control him. and finally DC
had TO be secured with rope. In his struggles he
would snap at the watchers around his bedside and
endeavor to reach them with mis- fingers which were
half closed resembling an animals claws lie did
succeed in nnictng wounds Dr. Hllebrandt and his
COUSIN Mr.. Reinhart. When first attacked he jumped
from the bed and jumping top Of the marble mantle
stood there yelling. At another time lie ran TO the
window and nearly succeeded in jumping to the
ground.
After he was secured in bed his suferings became
horrible in the extreme Froth Oozed from his mouth,
his eyes rolled and the appearance OF iiS Cousins
little boy caused him to shrek TO her 10 take the child
away as IL was a dog about to bite him. When young
Eitel recovering from the flt on Tuesday water
applied to his back and head in large quantities.
At that time he showed aversion toward tho liquid,
but during his struggles at night he called constantly
for drink The physician In charge afraid 10
give it to him, however thinking it would make his
spasms severe
Word was telegraphed to the boys father, at One
hundred -tenthst and Fifth-ave this city, and he
arrived In Long Island City yesterday. lie present
at the consultation of the physicians, and 1t
solved to remove the boy to his home. carriage was
procured, and the boy, accompanied by Drs. Compton
and Hllebrandt, taken home
DurIng his lucid intervals yesterday morning young
Etel for the first time spoke OF being bitten by dog
about four weeks in this city lie said it was
large bloodhound, and that he bitten twice. once
on the forehead and once the thumb Joint of tho
right hand lie said that he thought nothing Of it at
the time, and said nothing of it 10 his parents.
peculiar feature of the revealed by his father
when he heard the story told by the boy of the biting.
He said that the dog Of which his spoke well
known in the ncighborh'od in which they lived. The
animal was alive and did not show the least indication
of rabies On learning this fact, the physicians ques
toned tho boy as TO whether he hal been bitten
by any other dog lie replied in the negative. The
statement In regard to the dog, while IL puzzled the
physicians in attendance did net change their opinion
TO the nature Of the disease and they again asserted
that II was a welldevelOped case OF hydTOphObia.
The youth had been home scarcely an hour, when
he again seized with parOXySmS Of the disease,
which increased in such violence that on DR.. Weiss
order he sent to the pTesbyt yteHan Hospital.
Biting, barking kicking and frOthing at the mouth. he
carried upstairs, and his horrible cres-a
between the howl of a wolf and the laugh of hyena
rang through the building, chilling the blood Of all
who heard them. In room No. IS he Is alone except
for Dr. Frank Iupp, the house surgeon, and the stal
wart attendant who keeps watch over him. lie has
been encased In straight wastcOat and then strapped
tightly down TO the bed, his hands being maparlet-
The oonyulslOns Increased in Ialddlty and violence
until q O'Clock, when he grew calmer.
Tins far Eitel has displayed every symptom Of
hydrQphoba except the adherence Of water and the
inability to swallow IT.. This is Just the feature Of
the case that puzzles Dr. Iupp. in nine out OF ten
cases, the choking sensations develop within thirty
siA hours after the first meanchoic development Of
the disease. After an interval OF nearly 1ftytwo
hours since the display OF the first sympt>us Eite
last night was still able to drink although I'm his
lucid intervals he complained OF burning pain I'm
the throat. From this fact the PRESBYTERIAN Hospital
physicians are inclined % doubt whether the
one OF pure hydrOphOhia.
Judging from The boys delicate condition Of health
his weak mind and his neryOus semi feminine
temperament there is Just possibility that Eltel is
suffering from nothing more than violent hystera
Mr. Eitel has tins far been unable to obtain any
clew to the identity Of the dog that bit his son.