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Show a oucra tuurnro'Dnt, It Appear to Hire Conyerteil Mult I.nrker Into a Storage Battery. A case without precedent in the annals an-nals of medical treatment is that of little Mamie Lurker, who was bitten by a bug falling from an electric wire, and is now suffering with a peculiar case of what her physicians call blood poisoning, and with her flesh tingling to the touch like a storage battery. Mamie lives at 403 South Eighth street. Tier father in a retired and wealthy grocer. gro-cer. A few days before Christmas she paid a visit to her uncle, Dr. Carberry, who lives in the neighborhood of Eighth street and Girard avenne. In the afternoon she walked down Girard avenue with her aunt. A short distance below Eighth street she suddenly sudden-ly stopped, staggered, and, putting both hands to her face, screamed, "I am shot!" Mrs. Carberry grasped the tottering girl by the arm. Then she seized her ' hands, but immediately staggered back as if struck by the full force of an j electric battery. At the same time a man among the crowd tha t had quickly collected stamped under his feet a peculiar bright hued bug, hard shelled and bottle shaped, which had fallen from the girl's face. Mamie was taken at once to her uncle's house. On her cheek was a bright crimsoned colored and rapidly festering sore that looked as thongh a fingernail had scraped the flesh. Little would have been thought of the accident had it not been for the symptoms symp-toms of the girl, who was nervous and uneasy, whose grasp sent an indefinable, tingling sensation to the hands of everybody every-body who touched her. The . family physician, Dr. De Beust, diagnosed the case as bullia, or vascicu-lar vascicu-lar poisoning, and administered the remedies rem-edies usual in cases of that kind. To his astonishment, however, the bright hued sore on the check was followed by other bright hued eruptions on every part of the body, each one emitting the same peculiar tingling sensation when touched. Dr. De Beust had a consultation with other physicians, and made the patient the subject of Ids unremitting attention, with the result that he pronounced her out of danger, though still suffering from the inoculated electric bite. Reports of the strange case quickly SDread throughout the neighborhood. and a number of medical students boarding board-ing in the vicinity mado it the objectt of special inquiry. The bug had evidently fallen from one wire to another, and then, charged like a miniature storage battery, dropped upon the upturned face of the young girl, where he fastened himself until brushed to the ground. Dr. De Beust said that in his opinion the bug was of a Brazilian species brought to this country in the year of the centennial. centen-nial. The insect in itself is not known to be poisonous, and is distinguished for its peculiar appearance. -Philadelphia Times. |