The Sentinel=record., 1911-07-07
.HYDROPHOBIA IN CAT BITE
GIRL BITTEN BY PET DIES AN AWFUL DEATH NINE MONTHS
 AFTER INCIDENT.
One of the Most Unusual Incidents Before Medical Men, and Em- phasizes Danger in Bite Of
 Household Pets.

New Orleans, La., June 6.-Sob ping at the sight of herself in mir ror screaming, at the very thought of water, and seeking the solicitude oi darkness, like a thing that is mad Miss Zenobia Josephine Thieler lived through four days of horror and then died last Sunday afternoon foamine at the mouth.
 Nine months ago she was bitten by a strange gray eat, and no fanciful pen of a Pope is needed to color the tragedy that stole upon her unawares
 With a wild peculiar look in her eyes, she gazed into the glass, then clutched at her throat and covered her face from what she saw there, and shrieked: Take it away!" But there was nothing to take away The gray cat had been gone for nine months.
 Miss Thicker ;..ed at the home of her sisters mother-iu-l Mrs. Katherine Rein, 1925 St. Thomas street. Until the arrival of a physi- elan. Dr. Huhner, shortly before her death, while she was in convulsions, no one suspected that she was suf- fering from hydrophobia. At the doc tors question, Was she ever bitten by dog?" it was remembered that she had been bitten by cat just nins months ago.
 wffh her farner and mother, and other members of her family. she was sitting on the banquette in front of her home at 506 Fourth street when the strange eat appeared and was at tackled by two dogs of her household.
 The cat, big gray one, resembled a pet of her own, and thinking that it was her own eat the attack aroused her sympathy. She ran to the rescue and managed to separate 1t from the dogs.
 But the fury of the cat was divert ed from the dogs to Miss Thieler, and it quickly buried it's teeth in her right hand, between the thumb and fingers. Its grasp was so tenacious that it could hardly be torn away, and when. after much shaking it was fin ally cast off, Miss Thieler's hand was terribly lacerated It pained her so she was sent to the Charity hopsital, accompanied by her sister, Mrs. F.. Rein, and there the wound was cau- terlzed and bandaged. She was told to remove the bandages in five days and if the wound was not healed by then to return for further treatment. Strange to say, no one suggested that it might be wise for her to take the Pasteur treatment.
 The wound healed and was forgot ten. Eight months passed. About month ago Miss Theler began to have trouble with her arm, which seemed to be stiffening. The incl dent of the cat bite had been for gotten, and no one suspected that 1t might be the cause. Her arm grew worse and worse, until last Thursday when nine months had passed. Other symptoms developed. Miss Thie CT complained that she was unable to swallow either food or water. She ter. She cried bitterly at the sight of herself in the mirror. She seemed to be choking.
 Miss Thieler. accompanied by her sister, Mrs Rein, went to the charity department of the Touro Infirmary for treatment. Even then they did not suspect that the cat bite was re- sponsib,e for her condition, although all of the symptoms which she had developed were described in detail tc one of the physicians on duty.
 He laughed at her, and said there was nothing the matter with her. said Mrs. Rein. When she told him that she was unable to drink water as it choked her, he said that she was just little nervous, and would be all right in a few days. He wrote us out prescription which We have not filled yet. He said that he was on duty Tuesdays. Thursdays and