Show DIED DEED QUEER DEATHS STRANGE ENDING OP TWO EASTERN GIRLS efto I pricked neria with a adl fand As ar me luon larson trend nara naf loses ber zare by a bite EATH as the direct result of the scratch of a piu pin is the latest contribution of science to the woes boes of mankind miss jessie devine of 54 seventh street long island city L L was the victim of this peculiar death the aliment ailment was tetanus or commonly speaking peaking lockjaw she died in st johns hospital new york in great agony after having been treated by her family physician for malaria it was the bacillus so say the experts cf tetanus which produced the fatal result the bug was attached to the pin picked up and utilized to pin together a sma rent in her skirt instead of stitching she repaired with a pin the rent in her skirt the pin scratched her knee for she was not an expert in the use of pins you see said her mother who kind and practical never loses an occasion to point to a moral that even if a stitch in time did not save nine it is better to be orderly jessie smiled pleasantly and mended her skirt she thought so little of 0 a pin scratch on her knee A week afterward she fell ill she suffered from headache and uneasiness her appetite was gone she shivered in the heat it la Is malaria the family physician said and he ordered quinine a warm blanket the remedies that one used tor for colds in temperate climates and for fever of the marshes in torrid climates the headache and the uneasiness persisted miss devine felt a painful contraction of muscles of face and hands soon the muscles of her face cheeks and neck became rigid she could not move them at all the rigidity extended to her back the remedy for malaria had not the slightest effect upon her and all the persons whom the patients parents consulted said that surely jessie devine had a malady more severe than malaria since all its symptoms were aggravated a hundred told A consultation was called the physicians came out of it with faces that tried to express assurance but they said that miss devine should be taken at once to the hospital they bad agreed that the symptoms of at her malady were not those of malaria but of tetanus of lockjaw the dreadful plague that comes in all the legendary tales of villages at certain periods to kill those who walk barefooted tare footed in the fields how dreadful the terror of tetanus in every one who has lived in small ancient villages knows there are hurried calls on shoemakers for boots that have soles thick as boards there are raking of fields for rusty nails there are a thousand recommendations to children to he careful dr gibler pupil of pasteur says surely a pin may give lockjaw and the prejudice against rusty nails about tetanus is justified perhaps we will find some day that science can only prove the reasonableness of instinctive fears the pin that scratched miss bliss devine was probably picked from the ground by her the bacilli of tetanus are in the earth they cluster around sharp metallic things by virtue of a law of nature that is relentless and profound and that we may not explain dr Past eurs eues experiments have proved that he has discovered the antiseptic against the poison of tetanus in the serum that has done so much good everywhere he takes that serum from the blood ot of horses surely said dr alme leteve pupil of richet pins are an more dangerous than ham mera A blow from a hammer may stun only A pin may give malaria as a mosquito does by wounding A pin may give diphtheria phthisis fever tetanus tetanus comes of bacilli that grovels grovel in the earth they may not know that pins transmit them easily to the human body they may not be intelligent enough to select their medium but there is a blind instinct that makes them go to pins p ing calls fish hooks books all pointed inspru ments ment and cluster around them the be aft ware of dinst dr br cyrus edson said yes the most advanced physicians belle belaev U that there to a microbe of tetanus there is ax aa ak f dio di O 0 as tor diphtheria fitrer er mid and other comila iata in the pasteur discoveries the old idea that tetanus is a plague is not so 80 tut out or of reason as it nay may seem if case ot at tetanus appears in one loc locality alltY why may not there be reason to think that the cause of it dwells there ther in number other persons may pick up nails or pins and may be wounded by them in the same locality be prudent beware of being scratched by a pin or by anything else jessie devine suffered exceedingly she could not breathe she had spasms in her throat her jaws were set clates were used vainly narcotics and sedatives seda tives could not allay the severity of her spasms all the care that the scratch which she had received exacted was useless her treatment for tetanus came calme too late neither dr utiler dr leteve nor dr edson would criticize the physician who saw raw only malaria in the poor girls complaint they said when the questions put to them were not leading to criticism of him that symptoms of lockjaw were not symptoms of maj ria but professional courtesy cour tsay sealed their lips when the questions were definite beware of pin scratches they all exclaimed however mosquito bites even when by the new jersey species of theme theae summer pests are not considered serious by many persons that any healthy strong human being should die because of such an injury is almost beyond the belief of all that the bite Is poisonous and sometimes becomes quite painful is known to m most a a L but sister aslaug larson a trained nurse of the norwegian hospital brooklyn Is dead and the doctors say because of a mosquito bite sister aslaug was a powerful young woman tall straight and full of health she was easily able to lift any patient in her ward as most persons would lift a child yet she is dead and all because a mosquito kissed her lips while she slept cheti the time came tor for sister aslaug to take her vacation there was much discussion as to where she should go A family in bogota N J one of whose members she had nursed back to health invited her very warmly to stay with them during her holiday and held out the inducements of swimming and boating and crabbing in the hackensack hackenback Hacken sack river but sister aslaug was waa turned against this proposal by her friend sister christina who said dont go to bogota for the mosquitoes there are as big as snipe come coo Q a I 1 0 0 AW D 0 0 1 1 0 0 AN MW 4 JESSIE DEVINE SISTER ASLAUG with sister wilhelmina Wilhelm lna and me to mystic conn where we know of a nice summer bo aiding house are there no mosquitoes there laughed sister aslaug just a few replied her friend but they are not n at ferocious like those tho in new jersey and so the three nurses set out for mystic and took up their quarters quarter r in the house h I 1 Us e of william B noyes the mosquito joke was kept up and stater sister aslaug pretended to be dissatisfied because she sometimes at night heard the insects buzzing one morning she made a discovery see she said indicating a slight welling swelling on an her lower lip where one of your mystic mosquitoes has baa bitten me after keeping me awake all night I 1 could not be much worse off even it if I 1 had gone gon to bogota this accident was made food for whimsical comment all through the day at nightfall the swelling had bad increased and gave pain sister aslaug applied a simple lotion to the place but in the morning her face was completely disfigured by the dwelli swelling ng and her suffering was extreme she consulted a doctor and he prescribed a remedy which had no effect her face swollen to twice its normal size was also discolored fancying that they recognized the symptoms of blood poisoning her comrades r ad e s sent word W a rd to th the e m mother at h er superior bior of at the th e norwegian horweg tan hospital hospit a L she and dr guenther started immediately Imme diatel Y for connecticut for sister aslaug 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