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dog, recognized to be mad. Treated from July 15th to Ai 
gust 1st. Symptoms of hydrophobia appeared six days late 
(August 6th). Died August 9th, 1891. 
Three other persons (two sisters of the patient and a man 
bitten by the same dog, who received the same course Cl 
treatment, are now enjoying good health. 
R. D. Morton, thirty-five years old, of Columbia, S. C| 
engineer. Two days before commencing his treatmei 
(August 5th, 1891), he had been severely bitten by a rabi 
dog on the right hand and wrist, and was treated from tb 
5th to the 22d of August, 1891. Died of hydrophobia t\v 
months and two days after (October 24). 
J. S. T. Earl, forty-two years old, of Turners, N. Y., fa 
mer. On September 20th he was severely bitten by a wail 
dering dog on the right forearm, on which were twelve dee 
cuts and five abrasions of the integument. Seven small pig 
and their sow, bitten by the same dog, died of hydrophob 
between the 5th and 10th of October. Earl applied for trea 
ment only four days after the accident, and was treated froi 
September 24th to October 10th. He died of hydrophob 
on the 1st of January, 1892. He complained chiefly at fir. 
of his right arm “ hurting by spells.” 
PERSONS WHO DIED OF SOME INTERCURRENT DISEASE 
DURING OR AFTER TREATMENT. 
H. W. Stevens, thirty-three years old, physician, of Broo 
lyn. He came on January 26th, 1891, to the institute, t 
gether with Jno. Carroll, Pathological Janitor at New Y01 
Hospital. Both of them had some cuts or sores on the fi 
gers, and were alraid that they had inoculated themselves 
with the virus of hydrophobia in performing the post-morte 
examination of a man who died of this disease the 22d "*j 
January, in Chambers Street Hospital. When Dr. Steveu 
commenced his treatment, which was of an ordinary intensit 
he was already ill; three weeks previously he cut himself c 
the left forefinger while making an autopsy. This wour 
was followed by a lymphangitis of the hand and arm ar 
suppuration.* Before this was healed up he made many n 
* Report given in writing by the patient himself. 
