The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-07-23
THE KISSING BUG.
AenAiokss Rces From Photograph Of the Specimen tie California
academy Of Sciences


any ssperiai attention 10 his insignificant
ne.f. but now he has suddenly emerged
from his innoenous condition and gone
apon the warpAth. Cantsnted. Ia the days
e retirement and Innocence, with sticking
Ais poison dealing pfobnac!s into the
h0d3es Of other bugs aud Insects and
drawing the blood from their vasnly pro-
Testing and wigglinT hod.eA he has Of lafA
AsvsjoDed ~ experimental faculty. the ex-
exciee Of which. pleasing though IL may be
- him. has already had the effect AZ ter
fcrta3ng whole communities In the Eastern
etates.
The trouble began about three weeks
ago IN The District at Columbia An emer-
gsncy call wac ruug In very early one
morning az tia washington receiving hos-
ptfal And the ambulance hurrying away
brought In man whose appearance was a
ptixxae 10 the physicians In charge. Hts
eace was swollen 80 surh an extent that
Ms eyes were completely closed and the
skin over the .nfiamet parts was OF fiery
crimson and dissendsd almost TO the point
Of bursting.
Tho patient could give no explanation
81 the disease which had attacked him.
Hc could only state thar he had been per-
feefiy well 30 bedtime. but on awakening
IN tha middle 81 the night had found a
slight swelling on hts upper isp which had
tncseAsed - rapidly. spreading out over
NE checks and ncse. that by morning his
eyes we're completely closed and his face
hldcoas TO look upon
The physicians having never met or
heard Of such case before diagnosed thsa
0ns - being the effect % peculiar ner-
veus disorder. and after working over the
patient for th5rty-six hours. discharged
him restored 10 something IKE hts normal
condition
This was bat the beginning ~ a novel
but hy no means agreeable experience
Case after ca - ef tdtntfeailv similar ma
cure was brought to that hospital for
treatment. the ssrupsarns ~ all the differ
ent patients being almost invariably the
Oarte. Each and all went tss bssa " ell AMI
ewaktned q tho misery ~ distortion and
suffering. the enc exception was an ex-
pr~esman. who wna attacked hy the
strange Insiaay while lying asleep on his
wagon under the full glare or the af;es-
uoon sun
Various theories werc ru. forward in sx-
PLANTATION OF the strange disorder and
physicians disagreed among Themselves
o. To iss carse quite as snerxesleaiss aud
decidedly ~ did Tire newspapers and tho
public IN general The majority favored
ehs tasa es It's hesng particularly nggsa-
waited development 81 the trouble known
90 .ssra wbeFry hsash.'' Tho ansters at
the Emergency hospital ssln stand by
their first expressed opinion THAI II was
On outward manifestation * a nervous
disease. and a few dsterminedlv declared
that nothing len; tho hlse % Some nexfsus
fheect wcstld produce ssleh results were
visible IN every instance.
II remained fos AR. Schwartz. connected
With the esyssson ~ entomology Ia she
department. 90 agriculture, So kolve tho
problem. bet his solution dsa not by any
mears add &Hy element nf coE1faTt 10 the
situation. Without In the least wishing
90 become a martyr for the purpose 80
entga5entng his ieisag beings ea the Etie-
&ad painful flesh. fate thrust that mncons-
ferssbse Distinction apaa him.
Waite sitting In hss study 0as day last
week AZ twiltGas q e~ss'e-tike Insect ahsaat
the ssse 81 large hee staax hiFss on RE
cheek Applying remedies az enee. he was
Nsysd the sssia ard fassEgY eusensa wAsea
are ins arfsesr tie rogsten 81 these wao
are attacked in slean and Go nes awake
Gntil the passea hUs had tssaa % spread
ahrcuxa adjacent Tissues. ana sher,. ssef,sy
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