Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-10
sEPTIcEMIA DEVELOPS
AS A COMPLICATION
Under Severe Strain Heart Fails and
Death Comes SuddenIy-Many Phys
cians Called in Consultation and
Everything Possible Was Done toi
Save Life-BuriaI Wednesday.

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business man Of the city. died at IA
this morning at his home, 302 Norti
Center street Diphsheria, in its mos
virulent form, complicated with gen.
Many physicians We're called in con.
sultation, and everything possible wa:
done TO save the patients life. No one
ever made harder fight for life than
Mr.. VIII himself. who realized his
condition almost 10 the end
Mr.. VIII was taken Ill the middle
Of last week. suffering from what he
supposed was tonsilitis or quinsy, TO
which he was subject. He did not cal,
physician until Saturday, when he
summoned DR.. F. P. Lierle. DR.. Lierle
examined the young mans throat, pro-
nounced the case diphtheria, and tool
the usual precautions against a spread
OF the Infection. Anti-toxin was ad-
ninistered in large quantities Satur-
day and Sunday, and again on Mon
day.
Find Mixed Infection.
From a smear from the patients
throat on Sunday Dr.. George VI. John
son, who made the examination. found
a mixed Infection OF the most danger
GUS type. the streptococci, the germ
that produce blood poisoning. being
found in large numbers, and grated
10 the diphtheria bacilli This made
the case all the harder 10 combat. and
after the physicians felt that they had
overcome the diphtheria infection, BY
the use OF anri-toxin, strenuous meas
ures were taken 10 subdue the other
infection. Anti-srreptococcus serum
to the amount Of ten cubic centineters
was administered at o'clock Monday
evening. and again at 11:45 Monday
night a similar dose was given Al
O'Clock another dose Of 5000 units
OF anti-toxin was administered.
Heart Begins to Fail.
During the afternoon other physi-
clans We're called in consul -atior, in
Guiding DR.. y. E. Mighell DR.. NJ U
Chesire. and DR.. Johnson, the latter
rnaving been with DIR. Lferle in the case
most Of the time, and late in the af-
rernoon DR.. j. T. Priestly. of Des
Moines. was telegraphed for and ar
rived al Il o'clock.
During the evening the physicians
discovered a leakage of the heart
som ethirg that is always feared in
diphtheria cases, as the disease is mos
severe on the heart. Mr. Wills heart
had stood well under the onslaught un-
I'll Monday evening but when the most
vital of all organs began to give way
under the strain. and the patients TEN
perature kept mounting higher and
higher, indicating a general absorption
of the toxines, it was realized by the
physicians that the end was nearing
rapidly.
Altho Mr.. Will was conscious part OF
the time until shortly before the end
came, he was also irrational at inter-
walls, and recognized those about hin
duced by the toxenlia.
Was Popular Young Man.
Cliff WILL as he was Familiarity
known by his friends was one of tbs
most popular young business men Of
the city. He possessed a genial dispo-
sition, and had the happy faculty OF
not only making friends among his as
sociates but keeping them. His death
is not only a sudden shock TO his wife
and N ernbers OF the family, but to hun
dreds of friends in Marshalltown anc
other cities.
Was Native Of This City.
Edward c. VIII was born in this cit,
April L. 1878, and has spent practical
ly his entire life here. He was the sol
Of the late George and Christine Zieg
enfelder Will. Mr.. VIII attended schoo
in this city as boy, and left schoo
to enter the Mcbride & Will drug stor,
as a clerk. Later he attended I'll.
Grinneu College academy for a yea
and then went to Chicago to pursue {
course in pharmacy at the Illinois Col
lege of Pharmacy, from which he grad
uated in 1893, at the age Of 20 years
Not being able to get his certificate
from the state board before he was o
age. even tho he had passed the ex
animation successfully, Mr.. Will re.
turned to this city and took up hi:
work again in the drug store, and upor
reaching his majority was awarded hi:
certificate as a registered pharmacist
Upon the Incorporation of the Nc
Bride and Will Drug Company, in 1895
Mr.. Will was elected treasurer Of the
company He occupied this Office unit
the death Of DR.. w. S. Mcbride. five
years ago, when he succeeded DR.. Nc.
Bride as president of the company.
,Mr. Will was married on March 1s
1909, in Chicago, to Mrs. America
Workman. of Los Angeles, Cal, wht
survives him, with her son, John v
E1iIns, or LIS 1a.arSsc!!eS. NJ VIII is alsf
survived by his. only sister, Mrs. L. c
Norris, of Tacoma, Wash, who witt
Mr. Norris, is now on her way to thi.
city, and is expected to reach here
Thursday night. Mrs. A. A. Moore ant
Mrs. E. w. lamar, of this city, are
aunts of Mr.. Will. Mrs. Moore, real.
izing that Mrs. Will needed the com
fortinE hand Of some member of The
family in her hour OF deep affliction
volunteered to assume the risk of goint
to the Will home and entered the quar-
antined premises Monday afternoon at.
ter subjecting herself to an immuniz-
inc d.rea Of anti toxin.
Mr.. Will was member Of Marshal
Lodge, No. 108, A. F. and A. M, and
Marshall Lodge. No. 312, b. P. o. E.
Burial "Wednesday Morning.
Mr.. Wits body will be buried Wed
nesday morning in Riverside. A