Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1904 — Mrs. Thompson’s Condition. [ARTICLE]

Mrs. Thompson’s Condition.

On, Thursday forenoon Mrs. 3, P. Thompson recovered her mental faculties for the first time from the delirium which succeeded her terrible experience of taking o.irbolio EO'd, Tuesday evening. She states that at'the time of taking the poison she was feeling very nervous and in need of a sedative. That knowing that there was a bottle of sedative in the medicine case, she went to the case, and the light being dim, she got the carbolio bottle by mistake, it being much like the sedative bottle.

It is too soon to predict the final result of the poison. Her esophagus is so closed up that she can not yet take any nourishment, all that she attempts to swallow entering the larynx, causing violent coughing. The critical points however, are in her weak heart action, and the possible extent of the injuries to the stomach lining and portions of which lining are being raised showing that its inner coat at least is injured, but whether enough of the poison reached the stomach to burn it badly enough to be dangerous can not yet be ascertained.