DEATH FROM RABIES.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13651, 20 July 1908, Page 7

DEATH FROM RABIES.

Mr.Yi". ll.' Marsh, a wealthy manufacturer •of Urooklyn, died in At ay .test from wli.U w.'.ii .believed' to be. hydrophobia. -'contracted through * a pet ticking h;s hand on yi'hicii was an op. n wound. I lie cai_e, which seemed an ordinary -one; at tii's't, . developed sensational kat tires through the refusal of the iiiithoririeis ..t-6 gram a burial permit, and fioiu the fact that a pcet-mortom examination had been ordeied tjy tlie coroinr. Charges were hied with the District Attorney by the New'Yoik Medico-Legal Society'" agaiiftt tiie l-iusu-ur Instiluie, .where'Mr" Marsh went for tieameiu.. Heie he was' told that lie was too late as the case had progressed too Jar lor treatment, and wa.s advieed to settle his aflairs ami prepare for death, which could not be long delayed. 'J.h■« Mr Marsh dnl,. and, after arranging has attains and talcing farewell of his family, had opiates administered (o liim, and died late- at. night. 1 he. Medico-Legal. 'Society state that (here is • very grave doubt whether the millionaire manufacturer' had hydrophobia at. ail. Mr Clark Bell, president of the society, believes that Mr Marsh's death wan one to the influence of opiates and to the .statement made at the Pasteur lnsiit ute that lie w; u suffering ' from iiicttiablo rabies. The statement, he declares, set up a peculiarly imaginary condition from" which .Mr Marsh hiitl'etvd as though he had really contracted hydrophobia; Especially k this believed to be the case, as a eon of the dead man alsot handled the dog, and though:'lie had no scratch and wits- not licked by the animal, ■lie is suffering from practically the same symptoms as his father, who, during lucid intervals before 11it> death described sensations ivimilar to those Buffered in hydrophobia cases. Mr Bell believes; the son ' is Ktitl'wing f'rohr suggestion, the same,, as his father. The autopsy on the body of Mr \V. H. Marsh, disclo-ed the fact that Mr Marsh died from rabies. In conducting the autopsy Dr. van Giesen scratched his hand nearly to the bone, and he immediately went to the Pnsfenr Tiietii life,, where he; is- being , treated.