Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-09-07
SYMPTOMS OF HYDRoPHoBLA.
The Dog which Fastened Its Teeth IN
Little Howard Miliigan's Ankle Was
undnnbthdlY Mad.


Undoubtedly Mad.
Dr. Henry G. Munson last Friday made
an analysis of the stomach of the dog
which bit Howard Milligan, the 6-years-old
son of the Rev. Joseph X. Milligan, while
playing in the street near his fathers
house, Tuesday week, and the exami-
nation revealed the fact that the dog was
afflicted with hydrophia beyond the
shadow of doubt. DIR. Munson discov-
dred fragments of straw and grass, min-
gled with mud and bunch OF clotted hair
in the stomach. This discovery according
| to the stat tsnaent Of Or. Glbier. was PROOF
| of hydrophobia.
The Rev. Mr.. Milligan at once tele-
| graphed the result of the examination to
DR.. Gibier, head of the Pasteur Institute,
| in New York. where the boy is now under
going the treatment prescribed by the
| French specialist on hydrophobia. When
| Mr., and Mrs. Milligan took the boy to
| New York city, one of the first questions
asked by DIR. Gibier was whether or not
an examination had been made Of the ami
malls stomach. He was informed that
| such an examination had not been made.
Immediately after Mr.. Millgan's return to
this city, however, he held a consultation
with Or. Munson, and the latter at once
signifed his willingness to make the au-
topsy on the remains of the dog, with the
result as above stuffed.
Mr.. Milligan, Friday evening, received a
letter from his wife, who was with her son
at the Pasteur Institute, stating that the
boy was getting along as well as could be
expected and was taking the hyperdermic
treatment daily. Mrs. Milligan said she
walked out every afternoon with her son
in Central Park and the child was cheerful
and contented under the ordeal he was
undergoing.
/ | nt,t .E treated
by the Pasteur Institute last year, III
various stages of the disease, the institute
management claim to have not lost Z
single case. The case OF Howard Milligan
with q single exception, is the only one a
/ the Pasteur Institute at the present time;
The result Of the Milligan case VIII D.
watched with interest, not only IN thl
city but throughout the country, as th
circumstances have been published ia
and wide, and it is attracting great dea
) of attention. -
7 The home of MIR. Milligan, at No. 1O2
Tatnall street, is beseged by friends OF th
: pastor and his wife. all of whom ar
3 greatly interested in the case and expires
= Their earnest desire for the boys recovery
Mr.. Milligan has been commended on a
: sides for the promptness with which b
D rot the boy to New York for treatment b
4 the French experts. He communicate
with the institute daily.
4 A collie dog owned by Henry Y. Conne
a living at No. 6l3 French street. cause
= some excitement on King street, Friday
: by swapping and biting at passing dog
n The pet dog of Miss Kate Farra was bite
e by the collie, and J. S. Nioreland, she
:. dealer, at No. 904 King street, says his va
e liable Bay dog was bitten by the anima
Ii Mr.. Conner declares that the dog h,
"a shown no signs of f-hydrophobia. He sa.
the dog had been kept chained, but was
leased Friday. Several of the resident
7 however, are disposed to believe that IL
II dog should be carefully watched until sue
IS times as fears OF hydrophobia may be di
sr pelled or confirmed,