Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1904 — A MEDICAL MIRACLE. [ARTICLE]

A MEDICAL MIRACLE.

Ithaca Girl Recovering After a Year’s Sickness with Typhoid Fever. Hopes are now entertained for the recovery of Miss Leona Ireland, who was one of the first victims of the typhoid fever epidemic in Ithaca, N. Y., last winter and who has suffered from the disease ever since. A history of her case Is being prepared, for it is regarded as one of the most remarkable in the annals of disease. Every complication •known by the medical profession to attend and follow typhoid fever has been present In her case, and she is reduced to scarcely fifty pounds in weight. Ever since Jan. 29, 1902, Miss Ireland has had a fever constantly, her temperature reaching!. 106 degrees Fahrenheit every day for weeks. Her heart lias beaten 150 rimes a minute and again at only 20 for hours at a time. During the months of July and August she was kept alive by hourly hypodermic injections of stimulants. She has lived through more than a score of abscesses and is now recovering from general septicaemia. Her mind, which was at one time a blank, is now clear, and /the is able to move her i arms and to feed herself. Her physiI dan believes that she will recover.