The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-06-22
DIED AT TIE HOSPITAL.
MRS. VICTOR EM1NUEL'S DEATH
 TESTERDIY,

Caused by the Removal of n Tape Worm
 The Husbands Account of tho Illness of
 the Paticnt-Burial Certificate Granted.
 Maria Christian Emanuel, the wife of Victor Emanuel of Stony Creek, died yesterday morning at the New Haven hospital. The circumstances surround ing the illness of the woman were the cause of the hospital authorities notify ing the medical examiner
 Dr. White made an examination of the facts of the case and found that the woman was taken to the hospital on Thursday from her home in Stony Creek, at the instruction of Dr. Thomp- son of that place.
 When Mrs. Emanuel arrived at the hospital it was stated that she was suffering form a knotty condition of the intestines, superinduced by the re- moVal of a tape worm. The physicians connected with the institution did not find upon examination that there exist ed any such condition of the intestines, but found that there was evidence of Bright's disease.
 Remedies were prescribed by the hos pital authorities. She continued to grow weaker until death came at 12:3O o'clock yesterday morning.
 Dr. White reported the case to Coro- ner Mix, who instructed him to give a certificate of burial, and the remains into the custody of the husband. The causes of death are named in the certi- ficate are general depression after the removal of tape worm and uraemia.
 Victor Emanuel, the husband of the woman, gives the following account of his wife's death:
 ''On June 13 a peddler came to my house selling KickapOo medicine, and among them or others he was offering one which he guaranteed would re- move tape worms. This my wife bought as she had reason to think she was suffering from that malady. The man told her to take the medicine at night, when she retired, and she did so. About o'clock the next morning the peddler came in again and he gave my wife something out of bottle. The medicine had a greenish hue and was about the consistency of molasses CThe greenish fluid which the man prescribed was probably fluid extract of male fern, said Dr. White last eveuing)
 Tn about two hours afterwards another dose of the same medicine was given, which caused the worm to pass from the patient. I wanted the man to show me the head of the worm, but he said that he had not time, as it would take long while to disen- tangle it. I understood later in the day that he said to some of the people in the village that it was the most sue cessful administration of the remedy that he had ever applied, and that the worm was 320 feet long.
 When my wife had been relieved from the tapeworm the man said that she would need strong coffee and beef tea. These I gave her, but she con tinued to grow weaker, and on Tues day I called pr. Thompson, who ad- vised me to send her to the New Haven hospital. I paid the peddler s5 for the tapeworm medicine and thirty five cents for some ointment"
 The story was told to the medical ex- aminer by MT, Emanuel and neither Dr. White nor Coroner Mix has any thing to make them doubt the truth of the statement as yet. No autopsy of the body will be made.
 The name of the man who sold the medicine and who prescribed for the woman has not become known to the officers. It is possible that Health Of ficer Hoadley will investigate the case.