New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-28
DEATH ENDS 0-DAY FIGHT
OF HEROIC ISAAC LEVY
Rich Manufacturer Who SWaI-
lowed BiChIoride Tablets
Hopeful to the Last.
REDUCED TO SHELL OF MAN
Coroner Feinberg Takes Action
for Federal and State Laws
Regulating the Sale of
Mercury Poison.

After eight DAYS Of constant suffering.
n the last hours OF which even UNI
precedented doses Of morphine failed 10
relieve his agonies, Isaac Levy. the aged
clothing manufacturer, Of No. 1885 Hd
avenue Bath Beach, died at noon yes
terday.
Nothing but his indomitable will power
according TO his physicians. kept him
alive for. so Ions a time, for the twenty
seven grains of bichloride Of mercury
which he swallowed on October 70 lit
orally ate away the vital organs OF his
body
lew for three days was only the shell
OF a man. The membranes of his mouth
throat stomach and intestines were de-
stroyed by the action Of the poison aho
every effort of speech or thought was th'
product of remarkable nervous vitality
Two hours before death he gave in to his
agony. and asked the physicians to TRY
10 do something" for him.
Levy's case was practically given UP
as hopeless from the moment Or. Jacoh
sarnoff arrived at his home, on the
morning of October 20. Several hours in
NerNenGQ between the N'iA44Hb ~ w. i''e
sician and the taking of the mercury. and
the aged man was in a state OF collapse
DR.. Sarnoff ordered his removal to the
Sunshine Sanatorium. at Bensonhurst
and began work in an effort 10 save MIN
His stomach was washed, and he was
wrapped in hot blankets, TO induce per-
SEPARATION. This brought some relief, ou'
soon after Mr.. Levy began TO complain
of intense pains in the back, indicating
that the kidneys already were showlhe
the effects of the poison. brisk mas
sage finally relieved the pain, and there
was little recurrence Of that symptom
until Thursday morning. when the agony
which lasted until his death, the mos'
acute. according to physicians, that at
tends any disease, set in.
Physicians last night said Levy's night
was the most unusual ever recorded IL
the history of bichloride of mercury poi
soning. Walker. the Macon, Ga, banker
who. lived six days after taking blchlo'
ride. swallowed only about one-fourth OF
the quantity taken by Levy.
For many years Mr.. Levy was one oil
the best known clothing manufacturers IN
this country The volume of his business
reached 100000 a year. His philanthro-
pjes among Jewish organizations were
famous. He was "A thirty-second degree
Mason and a Shriner, and the Masonic
fraternity will have the funeral arrange
ments in charge.
Washington. oct 27.-Appalled by the
almost daily reports Of accidental poison
ing with bichrolide Of mercury tablets
Coroner Feinbers, of New York City, has
appealed to Representative Calder OF
New York. to introduce bill to regulate
the sale of this drug in interstate com
merCe.
H. a letter to Mr.. Calder to-day the
Coroner suggested that Congress bar the
drug from interstate commerce except
when packed in distinctive, poison la
beued bottles. He said he would ask
some member of the New York Assembly
TO introduce a bill prohibiting the sale OF
the tablets in that state except upon d
doctors prescription.