The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-14
ANTHRAX VICTIMS
FATE RESTS ON
HEART ACTION
Serum Acts and Swelling Goes
Down, Stackpole Rally.
ing Well.
DO,TORS FEAR COLLAPSE:
PATIENT Is E

re -. OF George F. Stackpole. an
,F,iN , I'm IN Bellevue Hospital, IL
sd "a" ''c balance. The efficacy Of
H. Government serum in combating
~. !-,a.e likewise is yet to be deter
w sd one crisis IN Mr.. Stackpole's
,.,-;idt Ir which death by strang-
ll.Iun was threatened-is past ;
,s. ..., man, breathing easily again,
fever ahaied. but with heart action
wtia,.,d 10y the disease. a yet to
,xuel the poison OF the anthrax bacilli
nom l.s system.
Word from pr. silver at 10 o'clock
Inst nght indicated that Mr.. Stackpole
w5s doing well. His temperature was
lo2. his system was passing of the
poison and his heart action vas respond
ing to treatment. In addition Z o the
laird injection OF forty centimeters Of
ne serum given yesterday, DR.. Silver
said that fifty centimeters more might
b. administered to-day.
From a relapse shortly early yester-
day morning which his doctor and fam
B-every one In tho sick room in fact
except the sick man himself-felt was
A certain prelude to death. the River
head lawyer rallied with remarkable
strength.
More serum Injected.
A few hours later his Temperature
which had been at 104h u. began to 20
down. his pulse strengthened and
.teadied until II could be easily detected
and his labored breathing became Easy.
With the arrival of DR.. Silver at 8
O'Clock a third injection Of the
forty cubic centimeters-was made; and
the second call Of the doctor In the after
noon found the lawyer better still. His
temperature was 102 and for tho first
time since his removal to Bellevue the
swelling in his throat had reduced SUI
gently to permit him to breathe lying
down.
Or. Silver vas smiling.
zone crisis he said, is past. The
reduction of the swelling is a sign that
the anthrax is under control. Tho serum
has done a part of its work. There IL
now an immense amount OF poison to
he cleared from his system. Can his
heart hold out? That is the question.
We are giving him stimulants. / am
very hopeful
DR.. Charles Norris OF the pathological
department of Bellevue. who Identified
the anthrax bacillus In a culture OF Mr..
y 'h'De ~ ~
r~er"rter yesterday an article on the an
thraN bacillus written by DIR. G. Sobern-
helm of Berlin. perhaps the most ex-
hdistINe student OF the disease In the
world. This treatise enters into a dis
ouss,on on the anthrax serums and
leaves rs a conclusion the belief that
once the anthrax poison has entered the
bood of "A human being no cure has ever
scsn found.
serum Administered Late. =
If Mr.. S~tackpole doesn't pull
through" said DR.. Norris. "ther is great
danger that people will assume that DR..
Eichhorn's serum is no good. This is
not So. The serum was injected very
l1te in Mr.. Stackpole's case. 1t should
be- given before the anthra swelling has
spread SO far as we know no serum In
'r" world can cure a man once the
poison of the anthrax bacillus has en-
tered his system.
There are two difficulties with the
treatment of anthrax in a region such
As this, where cases occur only once or
twice Il year first. "A man does not rea-
lie with the first appearance of the
disease that he has more than an or
binary boil second. even IL he does con-
suit a physician II is hard for the physi-
clan to identify the disease as anthrax
until the fatal swelling has spread"
A guinea pig inoculated with a prepa-
ration from Mr.. S~,ackpole's blood cul-
ture by the pathological department of
the hospital on Monday morning died
yesterday afternoon. fifty-two hours
atterward. with anthrax.
Health Officer Terrell of Riverhead
fum!gated Mr.. Stackpole's house there
AID burned some Of his office and home
furniture. including "A favorite set Of
domlnoes. Because of the fear of the
disease he could find no one to assist
I'm, The knowledge of the burning Of
The lawyers belongings will be kept
from him.
Late last evening Martin Brodsky. So.
a laborer OF Riverhead. applied at Belle
yue for admission with what locke
Ike a large carbuncle on the side of
his neck. The hospital authorities did
not wish TO receive him at first because
~ his living out OF town. Blu he said
he had been referred there by DR.. Ter
rel, who feared there was danger Of
anthrax. He was placed in the isolation
ward, three rooms away from Mr.. Stack
pole, for observation.
Until a positive diagnosis Ia taken of
MS case tomorrow one OF the ply
s.'ians will venture an opinion. He has.
however, had the swelling for over a
week, which is much longer than anthrax
runs.