The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-27
VIENNA'S LATE PANIC
INCIDENTS OF THE SCARE OVER THE
BUBoNIc PLAGUE.
No One Permitted Near a Dying Doc
tOr-Emperor and Empress of
Germany in Palestine.

VIENNA. Oct. 26-Outsiders can hardly
imagine what proportions the panic which
ensued after the first death from the bu-
bonic plague has assumed Professor
Nothnagel has been reported dead, and was
obliged to send personal denials to the
newspapers which had printed his demise
DR.. Franz Herman Mueller. the second
victim OF the deadly germs, when he
scraped the walls of Barsch's death cham
Der to obtain bacilli, knew perfectly well
that he would pay with his own life for
his untiring scientific research. On his
deathbed he called the attention of the at
tending physician to the fact that his
phlegm was full of bacilli. He remarked
with utmost coolness: Five days more
and all will be over with me-" AS no one
was permitted to approach the dying man
for fear of contagion. Father Pffn gave him
extreme JUNCTION symbolically through
a tightly shut window.
The young physician who died in the
service of his profession had been APP
pointed in 1897 by the Royal Academy of
Science to study the symptoms of the bu-
bonic plague in India. He went there liz
company of DR.. Albrecht. DIR. Ghon and
Dr. Poech, and only returned a short while
ago in the best of health. 1t does seem as
though all precaution had been abandoned
in the experiments made in DR.. Moth
nagels laboratory. Now all possible safe
guards against the spread of the disease
are being taken. Albine Hochegger the
nurse. and the attendant, Albert Noe, who
have been taken down with the disease,
are quartered in a perfectly isolated build
ing DIR. Poech, who attends the two suf-
ferers, pastes his prescriptions on the win
dow, so that the physicians read them
outside and cause them to be compounded.
When ready they are placed on the Win
dow sill, and from there removed by DR..
Poech. Meals are served by the same pro-
cess.
Both patients have exceedingly high
temperature, but there is still hope for
their recovery. Four more suspects have
been separated among them the seamstress,
Marie Anderst. Every one who came into
the slightest contact with Barisch has now
been isolated. Some wanted to get away,
but were forcibly detained. Still all Vienna,
nay all Austria, fears that not sufficient
precaution has been used Barisch was sick
three days, and during that time lived
with his wife in ore and the same room.
He is also known to have visited number
of public houses. His wife, who now shows
symptoms of the dreaded disease as well.
visited her friends. rode in busses. and at
the funeral of her husband came into con-
tact with dozens of persons. Barisch, when
intoxicated, is said to have handed food to
the animals on which experiments were
being made by incubation of the virus.
DR.. Poech. who is attending the sick,
wears as matter of extra safety. a mask
and has his DoStrils and mouth covered
with cotton which is burned after each
structon of all hatcheries of bacilli- The
animals on which experiments have been
made have been killed.
The bubonic plague. or the "black DEATH"
ravaged one-tenth part of India in the
winter ard spring Of 1869. In Bombay
city, from Oct 2, 1886, to April L.. 1897, the
at II 800 and of deaths at 1862. So the per-
centage of recoveries was exceedingly
small. Europe was no stranger TO the
"black death" in years gone by. In the
year 13fS 100000 died of this plague in Venice,
leaving hardly enough inhabitants to carry
on Venetian industry. The same year
$1,000 died of the plague in Florence a
and the country did not make up for the
victims Of this uncomfortable plague until
the latter part of the reign of Elizabeth In
1920 ship from the ISevant took the plague
to Marseilles and $1,000 inhabitants fell be-
fore it. Ten ye-Irs later the same disease
almost depoDulated Moscow, while toward
the end of the eighteenth century Egypt
and Morocco lost more than 100000 inhab-
itants. 1t was this plague that was men
toned in BCccaccio'S ''Decameron.' To the
readers of English fiction it will be recog-
nized as the disease which filed the loath-
some charnel houses of Florence, as de-
scribed in Lytton's "Rienzi."