Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-27
ABu3 That
Sends People To
The Devil

HE fever flushed patient with the burning tossed
his white hospital cot Suddenly, he screamed and
. up elbow.
Here come those devils again" he shrteled Don't let
them get me-" He fell back the bed buryng his face
in his Fearfuly, he uncovered eye and yelled
again
They're red devs!" His cries echoed down the
rdor His feet beat terrified tattoo the bed Doc
tor! Doctors Now they're dancing around big devil
Oh oh, now they've got perorks and they're sticking
me! l can't stand it, can't Doctor Doctor" And
mercifuly, the sick tainted.
This hospital not home for mental patients or a
haven for alcoholics 1t general institution for the
relief Of all kinds suffering in Santiago, Chile and it
had 22 similar all caused by the same thing
In another ROOM wasted-l looking figure lay in tor
ment He too seeing things His lips moved but
sound And his eyes, in pinched face,
big saucers. nurse bending over him. caught few
faint words
'T-can't-r,n- any-faster" the sick man gasped
Tm--al- out-of-breath neutrality-suspicious. -
The sympathetic nurse asked Is it the same. long,
white shrouded thing golden instead of feet and
legs and Sits for eyeholes?"
The sick man closed his eyes and nodded YEARLY.
"It will go away" said the nurse, soothingly
the hall things different. A third patients
a wonderful smile.
"Ah" he breathed ecstaticay you're beautiful! Oh
beautiful" He stroked something invisible with his
hand and breathed deeply. And the flowers smell so
good" He drew in breath and let II out almost purrng
as he moved his head caressingly on the pillow
The put her finger to her lips and tiptoed out
He thinks he's in a beautiful Oriental garden" she
explained "and the darling of harem and inox
Gated with the heavy perfumes of the sultans wonderful
flowers"
over in the women's section beautiful girl sat up
in bed She smiled and brushed hair back from
face that flushed and happy Looking coquettishly
at she said softly:
And shall be first Of all the harem? / truly
your adored one? All, Bluebeard, your devotion.
wonderful it is to me-! And her arms went out to enold
imaginary lover.
The hospital doctor making his rounds looked in
qurngy at the duty
What does she now" he asked.
This morning she floating away to distant fields
Of bliss and she's arrived her destination She
said she would pass right through all the walls and doors
just the X-rays do. Now she's met Bluebeard and
she's the favorite of his harem." The nurse sighed.
The doctor carefully studied the patients chart.
She'll make the grade all right but it's been tough"
These patients who dreamed weren't
victims Of some hasheesh weird South American
potion All OF them had tiny red bite bodies
almost too small to be noticed when they got which,
soon after, them all the fortunes of the damned
They had been bitten by black widow spider, says
Doctor Leonard Keene Hschberg drectorn-chef Of the
Institute of Medical Research in New York City and their
described by Professor r. Gajardo Tobar
Santiago, in special report the % of black
widow bites that had been treated in the hospital
he chief
The bite Of the black widow whose scientific name is
Latrodectus Mactans the Chilean doctor said, only
the extraordinary Authorizations illusions and
general delium but the most excruciang pains
commissions
The thing about black widow bites is that the
deadly insect crawl unnoticed growing crops like
alfalfa, wheat and other vegetation right into
the clothing of farm workers II it bites sharp and
shooting pain the bitten area after some ten
minutes have elapsed pain spreads all over the BODY
Muscles begin to tremble there spasmodc movements
and conracons of the joints commissions
The greatest pain is around the waist the arms and
chest and these parts of the body become rigid
commissions The sufferer nstnctvely clasps heart
and his chest because he has sensation Of focatnp
20 death His breathing becomes asthmatic his heart
beats fast then slow His blood pressure goes away up
and then takes big drop. Kidney fluids slow Ip the
bladder and intesnes become parayzed and the
pass into coma These symptoms Increase and abatc
every few hours for week during which time physical
and mental fatigue Is conspicuous.
"A VI Ia iten
Of these victims did - he immune for three months