The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-03-31
HAS LYSOPHOBTA.
A New Jersey Girl Presents Most Of
the Symptoms Of HydrophObia.

But Shes Was Never Bitten bv Dog and
Her Present Condition Results From
Fear.
Miss Eta Balzure. says the New York
Herald, is suffering great agony in the
little hamlet of Lyons Nj, thirty miles
cut on tho Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western road. She has all the symptom
Of hydrophobia, except the inability to
swallow, and that may come later. She
never was bitten by dog. Medical his
tory records but one similar case, that of
a French magistrate, whose hand was
licked by a dog which afterward suffered
from rabies. The name of the disease is
lysophobia, or hydrophoia non -rabique.
Miss Balzure is just eighteen years old.
She has a pretty face and delicate.
graceful figure. Her hair is dark and
her eyes Black as jet. Until two months
ago she lived with her stepfather, George
Terry, and her mother. in dingy one
storied farm house on side hill in
Lyons. Terry does not own the farm,
and the family often feels the pinches of
poverty.
Etta's beauty and pleasant manner at
tracted the attention Of the young men
in the neighborhood. She became en-
gagged last fall to be married to George
Anderson, a prosperous young farmer of
Millington. The wedding day was set
for the coming summer. AS she was
about to marry a man Of considerable
property she wanted a tasteful wedding
outfit. Her parents were unable to give
it to her and she started to earn the need
ed money herself. She went to Peapaek
and engaged as servant to Mrs. Burd
THE EFFECT OF READING.
She is a girl OF nervous temperament,
easily excited and as easily depressed.
She stopped one day in January last to
fondle Newfoundland dog belonging to
Silas Ludlow. The dog was good
natured and playfuIly snapped at her
hand. She wore thick glove, and
though the dogs teeth ripped the cloth
no mark was made upon the skin. But
she was frightened and ran to the house.
Tim so glad the dog did not bite me. :"
said she to Mrs. Burd, "hecause I am
awfully afraid Of hydrophobia. If he
had bitten me I'm sure | would have had
| it.'
Eta found a magazine in Mrs. Burd.s
house afterward, which contained an ar
ticle on rabies. She read it with much
| interest and talked about it for several
| days, each time oongratulating herself
| that she had not been bitten. Then the
story about thirteen New York boys be-
Ing bitten by mad DOG attracted her
attention. The boys were taken to the
Pasteur Institute, and she read the &C.
counts Of their treatment there with
ayidity.
| she began to express the fear two weeks
ago that she would have hydrophobia.
Mrs Burd tried to laugh her fears away,
and told her she could not have the dis
ease, as she had not been bitten. She
seemed to be very nervous. however, and
on last Sunday night tainted. When she
| revived she complained of dizziness aud
pains in her back. This is the first symp-
tom of genuine rabies.
A DOCTORS DIAGNOSIS,
She was so ill the next morning that
her mother was notified, and on Monday
night she had long paroxysm, which
greatly alarmed the Burd household
|
ing draughts, but admitted that he did
not know what was the matter with his
patient. Mrs. Terry came to Peapaok on
Tuesday and took her daughter home
the was too weak to sit up and was
placed on a mattress in the cart and
driven away. She had another paroxysm
that night.
L ca lied at the Terry farm house yes
forf 1rs,1
a bed in a darkened room. She had re-
oeiyed no medical attendance since Mon
day night as DR.. T. @. Jones, the only
physician in the neighborhood, had been
TOO busy to call. The gi1l's eyes were
closed, and she was lying upon her right
side, apparently in a stupor.
Suddenly her eyes opened wide and the
muscles of her face twitched. She turned
over on her back.
Come here, quick. john" shouted
Mrs. Terry; 'Etta is going to have an
other fit"
A tall, broad shouldered young man
entered the room and went to the bed
watched her daughters face with
anxiety.
AT once she ope ned her mouth and
barked, long and deep. Although the
girl has a sweet, low voice when in
health, the sound that came from her lips
was heaYy and coarse, like the bark OF q
big dog. 1t was an imitation of the bay
ing of Newfoundland that would de-
ceive anyone. The barking lasted half a
minute, and subsidized into low, angry
growl. Then she tried to raise herself.
THREE COULD NOT HOLD HER.
Directed by Mrs. Terry, John and ]
seized the girl and held her while her
mother placed @ pillow on the girls
chest. Our united strength was not suffi.
cient to Keep her quiet. The muscles oil
her legs were rigid, suffering from what
the physicians call tonic contraction.
Her nostrils and mouth were raised high
in the air, and the top of her head rested
upon the pillow. Despite the iron grasp