Death Of A Child From Hydrophobia

A singular oase of death from hydrojliobin was reported at pólice headquar;ers to-day. The victim was Martin LoL-enza, a cliild 4 years and 7 months oíd, íhe son oí Germán parents. About ten weeks ago a number of children selected ís a victim of their boyish pranksu small setter dog, and began chasing the animal about the street. The scared animal ran into the hallway of the building where Lorenza resides. The boy was standing in the hallway, and the dog bit him in seven or eight places, inflicting a very severe wound in the calf of his left leg. The dog was shot by a policeman, and Martin was taken to a drug store near by and the bites were thoroughly cauterized. The wounds healed rapidly, and no iurther attention was given the matter until last Thursday, when the boy appeared to be unwell and evinced peculiar symptoms. The pupils of the eyes were dilated, and the boy staxed about him in a f rightened manner. On Friday he refused to drink, and his apparent friglit at the sight of common objeets increased. His physician, being unaware of the nature of the ailment, applied a thermometer to the body of the child to ascertain its temperature. The glass was somewhat sweated, and to cleanse it properly a basin of water was brought and laid on the bed. The child did not see the water, but its eyes were fixed on the bulb of the thermometer, and every time the quicksilver moved the body of the boy shook and trembled. The physician, suspecting what was the difiïculty, then aplaehed the water in the basin with his finger. Immediately the boy began frothing at the mouth, and was seized with convulsiona. As soon as he recovered the doctor managed to give him a dose of hydrate of chloral, alter which the little fellow asked f or water, but every time water was brought became convulsed. Aii injection of hydrate of chloral was then given, and, ovcrpowered by the strength of the drug, the boy feil mto a narcotized state. The patiënt, under the inliuence of the narcotic, still kept up a continual spitting and barking, and clutched nervously at his throat, as though wishing more air. Snveral eminent physicians who called to examine the case agreed that it was a genuine case of hydrophobia. At 9 p. m. on Sunday the child died. This fternoon Dr. McAVhinney, Deputy Coroner, made a post-mortem examination, and, besides a slight affection of the sninal cord, fouud no disease of the ternái orgaiif