The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-11
LAWYER POISONED
BY DEADLY ANTHRAX
Second Case of Rare Disease
to Re Reported Here
Within a Week.
CURES SELDOM RESULT

George +. Stackpole. Fl years old. a
lawyer of Rivcrhead. l.. l.. was taken
yesterday afternoon TO bellevue Hos
pital. suffering from anthrax, an uncom-
mon and generally fatal disease In hui
mans. The physicians agreed that the
patient would probably die within
twenty-four hours.
Unusual interest was manifested In
the case because II was the second of
It's kind that Bellevue has had In the
last week and the third reported Of
late in this part of the country.
Stackpolc was n justice of the peace
at Riverhcad for twenty years. His
son. Philip, Is n student Mt Dartmouth.
Anthrax IL n disease which infests
cattle. particularly sheep. Infection Is
generally brought about by the intro
duction OF the germ into a cut or abri-
sion. There are cases on record whore
men have contracted the disease from
handling the hides of cattle.
In the case OF VI Stachpole there is
no explanation ~ TO the way he con-
trac;cd the deadly ailment, which de-
yeloped IN his neck. 1t IL believed, how
ever, the enthriX bacilh entered n
scratch. Possiblythey were on his ibnger-
nails.
Mr.. Stackpole was first treated by Dr.
II. NJ. SliN tl Ii -sb -NltaihStn iNfIuts 1 I'VE
poison developed rapidly and he was
seit "a the French Hospital. He VAS
transferred yesterday afternoon to Belle
vue.
! Carbuncular swelllngs appeared and
the neck cuticle bore somewhat the ap-
, pearance of crysipelas. The patient is
suffering great pain. but his mind Is
clear and at n late hoJr last night he
was providing for the disposal of his ef-
fect-.
His wife and daughter remained with
him until nearly . o'clock this morning,
when they said good-by and left. They
were so broken by the strain that they
were not able to stay ut the hospital
longer. Before they left he recited
Bryant's poem "Thanatopsis.' while
doctors and nurses gathered near the
bed with bowed heads. He gave Mrs.
! Stackpole a message for his son. whom
he will probably not see again. The
message ecad:
"DEAR PHILIP: Lead a clean. pure,
upright life so that o may meet the
end as bravely as I shall
ON Wednesday last JOar A.iller, 50. a
laborer Of 10 Vandam street. Manhat-
tan. was admitted 90 Bellevue suffering
from the same rare disease. lie dice on
a, the following day.
About n week ago a fatal case OF
anthrax poisoning was reported on Long
Island.
In 1906 Alfred II. Cooper OF Newark
was discharged from So. James Hospital
as cured after having UNDERGONE treat
ment for the disease. The disease was
in an advanced stage when he entered
the hospital. The treatment consisted
In cutting out the affected skin IN his
right arm and washing the underlying
tissues with n carbolic solution injected
vrith "A zNrinp, The "a rTN ur1g kans sr
n solution Of carbolic and sugar Of lead
for n week.
This cure. according 10 reports of
medical journals. was said then to be
the third in twenty years.
In 1909 there was an epidemic of the
deadly anthrax among horses and cows
at Middlc.owu. y. Y, and one man,
Theodore Wright. who skinned several
cows that surouwhed. contracted tbs
disease and died In terrible agony after
an illness Of five days.