Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-17
PASSitEJR LAWYER
PATIENT DIES LIKE
GLEN RIDGE GIRL
Miss Virginia Vogelius, First VIC
tim, Buried from Late
Home Today.

Pasteur specialists and physicians are
today mystihed and excited over the
case OF Arthur Howard Wattick, of 6S3
East 236th street, New York, who died
of an ailment which the attending ply
stefan could not diagnose, exactly two
weeks after being discharged from
treatment at the Pasteur Institute, New
York, and following within twenty-four
hours the death of Virginia Z. Vogelius,
of Glen Ridge, who succumbed to
spinal meningitis, which her family be-
lieve was caused by the Pasteur treat
ment.
While engaged in investigating the
Vogelius case, DIR. George A. Rambaud
was told of the Wattick death, and was
speechless with amazement for a mo-
ment. Then began a careful tracing
back of the case.
On February 10. Mr.. Wattick was
bitten three times by a dog, and, fear
ing rabies, IN went to the Pasteur In
stitute Tor treatment, which he under
went until March 8. When he left"
DR.. Ramoaud says, the Importance of
not exposing himself to the cold for
several weeks was urged. The neXt L
heard of him was when / was called to
Ills HOUSE anu 1T d0 sim VA v ~
case puzzled me. l could not diagnose
it. 1 learned from his brother that a
week after he left us he started for
Tuxedo in an open buggy. Inc buggy
broke down and he was exposed TO the
cold for several hours. He was In the
cold air two hours more in an open
automobile before he reached a house.
Il then made a further examination
and called in DIR. Gilman Thompson, a
specialist in nervous diseases. we
found no symptoms of rabies or menln-
gifts. l have been with the Pasteur IN
stitute twenty years. and nave seen
nearly 100 cases of genuine RABIES, a
most unusual number, and l know the
disease. DR.. Thompson agreed with me.
He ventured the opinion hat MS con-
dition was due to exposure to cold.
Last night DIR. Thompson and | were
again called in the case and found a
complication of symptoms. l candidiy
admit thu l do not know what the
trouble was. There were we'll def1ned
symptoms of paralysis manifested IN a
form l have never seen before. We be-
lieve that he died of some form OF cere-
bral trouble, but only tests will show
what the actual cause of death was. l
am certain he did not die of rabies
1.-THE treatment here affects the ner-
vous system. This may explain MT.
Wattick's ailment, and also that OF
Virginia Vogelius, who returned to
school a week after she returned home
Mr.. Wattick was a lawyer and his
brother-in-law, Justice Shields, Mrs.
Wattick and others insist that he was
a victim of rabies. DR.. H. Pinckney, of
Martha avenue, the family physician,
would not make any statement for pub
LEGATION.
Fluid from h spine and brain of
Miss Vogelius has been injected into
rabbits and specimens sent to the
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re-
search and also to the Pathological In
stitute at Trenton. Similar scientific
tests will be made in the case of Mr..
Wattick.
The funeral of Miss Vogelius took
place this morning from the hurch of
the Sacred Heart, Bloomfield. The Rev.
Joseph NJ. Nardiello of1ciated. Among
the many flowers were emblems from
the Busy Bees, of which she had been
president, and her classmates in the
Glen Ridge School. The scholars of the
Glen Ridge School attended in a body
with their teacher. Miss Mary F.. Me-
Greedy, while many were present from
the Scored Heart School. Interment
was in Mount Olivet Cemetery.