Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1876 — Hydrophobia From the Bite of a Dog Eight Months Ago. [ARTICLE]

Hydrophobia From the Bite of a Dog Eight Months Ago.

I Patrick O’Neill, a young man of good moral habits, employed at the grocery of Patriok O’Connor, on the oorner of Loomis and Taylor streets, was last November bitten upon the left thumb by a small Terrier dog, owned by bis employer. The wound inflicted was not severe, and little notice was taken of it at the time. It healed rapidly giving the young man no trouble at all, until last Friday night, when tbe poor fellow awoke to find himself barking like a dog, and suffering the most intense pain, which waa augmented into craziness at the sight of any bright sobstanoe or water. By Saturday his malady had developed to suon an extent that he was removed to the Sister’s Hospital, on the oorner of Calumet avenue and Twenty-sixth street, and there he lingered out the little left him. From the momeut of the first symptomp of the ! disease his body knew no rest, and i the poor victim kept up a fearful howl and baricing until the moment of his death. By his own direction he was tied firmly to the bsd, handcuffed and padded, to prevent himself from being torn to bits in his frenzied mania for biting all that came before him. He begged repeatedly to be smothered or shot, and when life became so faint that the brain failed to act, he relapsed into a spasm such as tbe canine race exhibit when in the last stages of poisoning. O’Neill was only 20 years of age, and has no relatives other than an unde in this country. He was a member of St. Patrick’s Benevolent Soeiety, and by them he will be buriecL—SowfA Seed Register.