Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1880 — The Cause of Miss Neilson's death. [ARTICLE]

The Cause of Miss Neilson's death.

The London Times of this morning of August 26 prints the following communication from Dr. Johnson, the physician who attended the late Miss Neilson, on the character of his illness of which she died. Miss Neilson suffered from dyspepsia, combined with neuralgia of the stomach. The disease was fantastic in coming and going, depending apparently on moral causes especially with errors of diet. Any undue excitement or mental depression was favorable to the attacks. During the final attack of gastralgia she might have been temporarilly relieved by morphine, had it been administered in time. During the violent recurrence of pain she fell into a state of syncope and died while in that condition. The postmortem examination disclosed the extraordinary rare fact that in the writhings incident to the decease she had ruptured a varicose vein in the left fallopian tube and died from internal bemorrage. Twe and a half quarts of blood were found in the peritoneal cavity, the ruptured vein presenting an orifice of from four to five millimetres in diameter.