, 1891-02-27
DR.. STEVENS DEATH.
Fears That 1t Was Caused by
HydrOphobia.
He Was lnoculated by Prof. Pas.
tours Lymph
But Died From a Disease of the
Spinal Column.

whose death occurred last Tuesday. In
this connection it gives the following in
teresting facts:
George Kendall, alarm hand, employed
by Henry X. Schuyler of Arlington, N.
j., died of hydrophobia fiom a dogs bite
at the Chambers street hospital IN this
city on Jan. 20.
For scientific purposes an autopsy was
performed anon his body the same after
loon by DR.. Henry William Stevens. the
assistant pathologlst at the New York
hospital and DR.. Ira Van Geisen of the
College of Physicians and Surgeons.
DIR. S:ev-ns, while dissecting a body
about three weeks before, had injured the
index inger OF his left hand.
- fhg result was q slirht-iaAamatieR and
a small sore called an anatomical tu5ercle,
which is not uncommon to those who are
so often engaged 10 such dissections. DR..
Stevens own statement is that this sore
had imperfectly stabbed over, and at the
close Of the Kendall autopsy he saw that
its inner past was still exposed The
thought suggested itself that it had come
in contact with the rabies injected body
and that danger might result.
His friends advised him, it is sad, to
see DIR, Paul G bier, of the Pasteur iusti-
tute in West Tenth street, and on the
following day he made a call which. re-
suited in his receiving a series of daily in
EQUATIONS for rabies.
The inOculations that DR.. Stevens re-
celVed began on Jan. &c and ended
on Feb. 9.
He did ro,i go to DR.. Gibier's after
Feb. 9, because be was Frustrated at his
house at 1872 Hicks street, Brooklyn. with
a painful and dangerous disease.
Its first symptoms manifested themselves
about the time OF the last incubation.
They consisted at first Of a feeling Of
paralysis in the lover limbs, ACCOMPANIED
with exerucia,ing nerve pains.
Twice on his way to his house DR..
Stevens fell to the ground. and it was
only with great difficulty that he got
home. DR. Jonathan Wright of IS
Remsen street. Brooklyn. a medical friend
of Dr.. Stevens. recognized the malady as
some trouble that affected the nerves.
DR.. Carl N. Dowd, a specialist of l47
West Seventy-third street, New York,
was called in as attending physician, and
as the patients condition became steadily
worse, DR.. Francis Delafeld of ~ West
Thirty-second street was called into
consultation.
The knowledge of his exposure during
the Kendall autospY first started a story
that he had hydrophobia.
This disease has o developed how
ever, but by some Il connection has been
imagined between the peculiar form of his
trouble and the inoculatlons he received
from DR.. Gibier. The assertion, how
ever, is not advanced that his illness is di.
rectly due to the Gibier inoculatIors.
One of the physicians in the case says
his disease is a well-recognized disease of
the nerves. He can't say what caused it,
however.
When DR.. Wright was asked BY a Sun
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at .tne New hork hospital where the
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