New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-25
Post Praises
Bellevue for
Anthrax Cure
DIR. Summers Best Posted
Authority on the Disease
in U. S.; Given Every Care
at Hospital, He Asserts
All Cost Was Room Rent
Only inconvenience Occa-
stoned by Many Doctors
Calling to Study Malady

Frederick H. Post, the polo player,
who was discharged from Bellevue Hos
pital Friday, cured of anthrax, a dis
ease which has a high mortality rate,
was enthusiastic in his praise of the
hospital yesterday as he sat on his
maple-shaded front porch at Williston,
L. /.
1t was difficult for him to decide to
leave that retreat July Id for the brick
walls of city hospital, and only the
earnest warning of his physician that
his life was at stake finally made him
yield. A serum treatment for anthrax
has been developed at Bellevue with
marked success.
There were no luxuries in the room
assigned to Mr.: Post at Bellevue: The
furniture consisted of a bed, table
and two chairs. The greenish blue
paint with which the walls were tinted
was peeling here and there, revealing
gray plaster. The window looked out
upon the roofs of tenements and fac
tories, the superstructure of a gas
tank being the most prominent feature
of the view.
But if he ever suspects that anthrax
is attacking him again, Mr.. Post is
going to leave his coZy home, his front
porch, his stables and his naples and
start for Bellevue without a qualm.
ITS the best institution in the world,
and DR.. Douglas Summers, who had
charge of my case, is the greatest man
in the world" Post declared. every
body certainly treated me top-notch.
believe DR.. Summers knows more about
anthrax than any other man in
America.
81 had excellent care, and the best of
some payment for it and for the fact
that they saved my life, nobody would
take cent. All l coald spend was
$3.50 for a weeks room rent, which
beats any hotel in town.
81 never missed meal and had no
temperature. But got kind of tired of
the doctors; the outsiders, | mean.
About 800 of them came around in
small groups alone to look at me as a
specimen of anthrax. l submitted Ill
right though, and the only real
nuisance was young fellow who kept
coming in right along for some rea-
son. l don't know what.
Caused By Bite of Fly
at wasn't very pleasant to be
walked up every four hours to be
jabbed. AT first it wasn't SO bad, but
after while it got on my nerves, and
l was mighty happy on Monday morn
ing when DR.. Summers took a culture
and said that l was all right and
didn't need any more"
Mr.. Post said that physicians at
Bellevue believed that he had con-
tracted the disease from the bite of a
stable fly. He has sixty horses in his
stables at Wiliston, and thinks the
doctors suspicion is a reasonable one.
When hezwas stricken he was in ex-
cellent physical condition, having been
riding about forty miles day for six
months. Two days before he was
taken to the hospital he played in a
polo match.
Without Dr. Symmers's attention Mr..
Post would have died, he thinks but he
gives DR.. Everett c. Jessup, of Roslyn,
equal credit for keeping him alive.
DR.. Jessup saw anthrax cases in the
army and recognized Posts case the
minute he saw it. He took culture
to Nassau Hospital and proved it, then
got Post to Bellevue.