The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-02
VICTIM OF SCIENCE
WOMAN CONTRACTS CHAMBERS
IN STATE LABORATORY
DR.. Orianna Mcdaniel Is In Critical
Condition as Result of Experiment
to Discover Cause of Deaths of Two
Farmers-Disease of Equine Origin
Is Generally Deadly to Mankind.

With death lowering near, DR..
Or1anna Mcdaniel lies at her home in
Minneapolis the victim of her devotion
to her profession, and with the lament
able prospect facing her of ultimately
sacrificing herself to the science which
is even now battling to keep her among
the living.
Glanders-dread disease which fells
the mightieSt of horses-is the malady
against which this frail young woman
physician is fighting. She contracted it
while engaged in investigating for the
state of Minnesota the cause Of death
of two Of her citizens. This duty fell
to her as an employee of the bacteria
logical department of the state board
of health. Her life may be the price
of her devotion to the duty assigned
to her and the love she bore to the
science which has for it's object the
preservation of human life.
'It is very sad case" said DR..
Bracken, of the state board of health
yesterday. Miss Mcdaniel, who is
graduate Of Ann Arbor, has been en-
gagged in the state laboratory for sew
eral years. She became infected with
the CHAMBERS while making a bacteria
logical examination Of tissues sent to
the board. 1t is supposed that she had
a small cut on one of her fingers, and
1t was not until she had been i'll sew
eral days that she was aware Of the
nature of the disease
Two victims of the disease living
near Frazee, Mimi, died before Miss
Mcdaniel was stricken and it was
while she was engaged in discovering
the cause of the death Of the twain
that she was infected with the disease.
Believed 1t Smallpox.
On April % Robert Schram, twenty
six years old, young farmer living
two miles south Of F'razee, was strick-
en- with disease which resembled
smallpox. DR.. Barton, of FraZee, was
called in and as the body Of the young
man was covered with eruptions and
the other symptoms usually found in
smallpox were noticed the state board
Of health was notified. From a de-
scription Of the case DR.. Bracken was
was not one Of smallpox, although he
was not certain as to what 1t was.
The young man died May and the
local physicians were unable to agree
as to the cause of death.
On May %, two weeks after the death
of Robert Schram, his brother, Will
lam, who had nursed Robert, was
stricken with the same disease and
month later died.
Contracted From Horses.
Previous to the death of William
Schram Veterinarian Youngberg, of
Detroit, visited the Schram farm and
found two horses in the pasture, both
of which were afflicted with CHAMBERS.
One. of the horses was so far gone with
the disease that Youngberg stated
it would not have lived but few
hours. The horses were killed and
buried and then it dawned on the local
physicians that the death of both Rob-
ert and William Schram was due to
the CHAMBERS.
A portion of the tissues from the
body Of William Schram were imInedi-
ately forwarded to the state board of
health for archaeological examina-
ton and the report made by Miss Nc
Daniel showed conclusively that gland
ers had caused the death Of the two
brothers.
1t was while making the laboratory
examination that Miss Mcdaniel was
infected with the disease. There are
but few cases recorded where the dis
ease contracted by a human being has
not proved fatal.