The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-05-27
DOGS Are Slain
BY The HUNDRED
Annual Mad Dog Season Has Arriv-
ed With All It's Fear
full SCares

injuries were inflicted by the teeth of
raold animal The dog Itself ex-
nibited symptoms of hydrophobia and
It's brain showed the character lesion
| of rabies
When Dr. Marsh came to the Pas
| teur Institute" said DR.. Wheeler ,as+
night, the symptoms of hydrophobia
were already visible, and l was entire
~ justified in telling him frankly that
| ne could not live more than three DAYS.
| recovery from hydroprobia is un
known in medical annals. The only
| treatment known, that discovered by
| Fasteur, is of benefit only when ad-
minfstered before the external SWIM
toms Of the disease manifest them
selves. In such cases it cures in nearly
every instance.
My prediction that death would en-
sue in three days was based on a wide
experience in similar cases I have
sometimes been able to foretell the
very hour in which death would come.
There is only one safe procedure to be
| followed when one is bitten by a dog.
and that is to take the Pasteur treat
ment at once. If the dog, after biting
a person, shows symptoms of rabies.
| there is no chance of saving the per
! sons life. In every case tho dog
should be killed as soon as it has
bitten one person and it's brain ex-
amined for the characteristic signs Of
| the disease"
| DR.. Marsh did not delude himself
with false hopes. With the death
warrant of the physicians of the Pas
teur Institute still ringing in his ears.
he made his will, called his family ana
business associates into council and
gave them explicit directions for the
conduct of his business and personal
affairs after he should have gone from
| them, and calmly lay down to die, as he
had lived, like a man.
You will die before Thursday noon.
No human power can save you"
That was the dictum of DR.. William
l. Wheeler, of the Pasteur Institute.
delivered last Monday. 1t struck DIR.
Marsh like a blow between the eyes.
but he stood up to it man fashion
l have seen some pitiful sights hut
| never have been SO moved as I was
| by the calm courage, and splendid hero
ism of Dr. Marsh when told him there
was no hope for him. said DR.. Wheel
er yesterday.
Returning with his physician, Dr. H.
NJ Cullnan, to his home, No. At Ocean
avenue, Brooklyn, DR.. Marsh at once
began to make plans for the future of
those dear to him. Himself a graduate
In medicine, he knew science had said
Its last word and his fate lay on the
knees of the gods.
| I am not afraid to de- The past
hides nothing that should make me
ashamed to face the future" said he
to his friends who called when word
was sent forth that one about to die
was waiting for the end His only
fear was that the frightfuI commissions
of the final stage of rabies might prove
too narrowing for his family to wit
ness, the terrifying cries too heart
| rendfng for the me to hear So he
asked Dr.. Cullinan to keep close when
the period of delirium began and to
be liberal with chloroform, opium or
whatever might avail to stupefy and to
soothe.
Faithful to his trust, DR.. Cullinan
| hardly left the bedside OF his patient
and friend until the end. From early
Tuesday afternoon until he died Mr..
Marsh was in a state of almost com
plete Inconsistencies, induced by soda
tfves. Death came gently and peace
fully.
Still in full possession of his facuf-
ties, the only symptoms of his fatal
disease being the convulsive contrac-
lions of the throat that seized him
from time to time. DR.. Marsh directed.
and the rest consented that his second
son, Ramsey, who has been associated
with him In business, should undertake
the management of the company as its
head. There were other things talked
over. too, but of their details none
would speak last night. 1t is safe to
| say, however. that of all the occupants
of the house, DR.. Marsh himself was
the only one who slept that night
DIR. Marsh was doomed from the
moment the symptoms of rabies devel-
| cped.' said DR.. Culinan. TT was be-
yond the power of science to save him.
1 accompanied him to the Pasteur In
stitute on Monday. soon as he had
| reported his symptoms to me. I had
little hope when we went there and
none when we left Both DR.. Ram
| baud and DR.. Wheeler assured us there
| was no record case where the patient
had recovered after showing the first
symptoms of rabies. We decided to
try the Pasteur treatment, but without
hope. I admins tered it daily until his
death.
There is one point I cannot empha-
size too strongly. This was a genu-
Inc case of rabies beyond the possibility
| ions that 1t was pseudo rabies, or 1ys-
sophobia, hysterical condition that is
sometimes set up in persons of nerv-
Gus temperament under the influence of
| fear No such conditions obtained IN
this case.
DR.. w. H. Park, director OF the
Research Laboratory of the Board of
Health, where the Pasteur trea is
also prepared and administered, said:
ut is perfectly true that rabies is in
durable after the external symptoms
have set in. Death in such cases can
be predicted with absolute certainty.
There are at least five hundred mad
dogs killed in New York every year.
We examined the brains of 200 last
year In that period there were TWEEN
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