The evening world., 1914-11-12
pAoPE FORG|RL
NEAR DEATH FROM
YEAR-OLD CAT BITE
Medical Skill Baffled in Fight
to Save Life of Brook
Ign Girl.
SERUM WAS USELESS.
Parents Rushed Her to Pasteur
Institute Immediately After
the Attack.

Paralyzed from the waist down,
stricken with blindness and raclsed
By commissions. tiirteen- year-old
Grace Poihsmus. daughter Of Arthur
Polhsmus, manager Of the Knicker.
booker Ice Company. Of No. $40 Mon.
roe street, Brooklyn. 10 going to die
unless a miracle Of science inter-
venes-because q mad cat bit her one
year and twenty days ago.
~. Theodore L. Vosseler, Of No.
sscA Monroe street. who remained at
to child's bedside all night. to-day
inside an earnest plea that her
strange misfortune be an object les
seu. He said the remarkable case
emphasizes the sound sense Of Health
Commissioner Goldwater's order that
Az dogs should be muzzled or leashed,
aad insisted further that for tho
projection Of others like Grace all
stray dogs and cats be destroyed.
Il developed to-day that two others
who had been bitten by the mad cat
the day Grace was attacked never had
been treated. One IL Morris Fem
sto}n. ten and one-half years old. OF
No k62 Gates avenue, a few blocks
from the Polhcmus home. and who
w. In the same school class with
0eAces After the cat had bitten the
gi8 while She was petting 1t Morris
went TO her aid and he was bitten or
tn 1e6./ Then q man came up and
tr1od ~ fight OF the animal. He u
William Murphy. thirty nine. Of No
80 Sixteenth street, South Brooklyn
He was also bitten on the leg.
Tho boys mother to-day said che
had not believed the skin was broker
on the child's leg and paid NO atten.
ton to It until the day after the at.
tack when DIR. Vosseler offered Il
treat tho boy. but no refused. The doc
lo6 advised her to notify the Board o
Health and she says she did, bu
never received a reply or q call from
q physician. She said the boy nevel
was i'll since until last Sunday night
the day Grace developed rabies. wher
he had a severe headache. but sh,
gave him some medicine and to-da,
he Is playing as usual. Murphy sale
he had his wound cauterized In {
drug store the day OF the attack ant
had not thought OF tho incident since
When told ny an Evening worlu re-
porter Of Grace's serious condition h.
fastened away to take the Pasteu
hatment.
besides DR.. Vosseler, Grace
her and mother and two traine,
DrSes were at her bedside all nigh,
u denied the child made noises lik
y q cat but said she was delirious an
unable to recognize her mother.
Il IL regarded as simply q matte
q waiting for her death. although tn
new treatment discovered by d.
Noon Of st. Louis, combination q
Quiulne and urea administered In tn
spinal ca vity. Is prolonglng her III
and greatly reducing her suffering.
0race's case Is the only one o
record that has developed 80 lon
After an attack by n mad animal, an
n explained by the fact that tn
poison remained latent until tn
child's health became poorer an
made her susceptible. A pulmotor
Q case Of rabies was used for the firs
time In this case. On Sunday yaraly
sis Of the muscles Of respiration dc
vsloped and a pulmotor was brougf
from the Eastern District Hospit,
end revived her.
The little victim has two sistel
older than herself and brother. IN
years old. She attended Public Soho
No. ~.