| Show hydrophobia caused by scratch of a cat suffering with what the doctors be lieve to ue oe hydrophobia caused by a scratch on the wrist by a pet maltese cat thomas rogers an engineer in one of the big downtown down town buildings Is dying in three n bellevue hospital new york about three freeks behs ago go he wasl was scratch od cd by his pet cat he thought noth ing of the wound but a week ago he was suddenly seized with convulsions and began to froth at the mouth the was and rogers felt better a moment later A physician was called but was unable to diagnose the trouble until he heard of the scratch on the wrist then he sug rogers might have hydro phobia rogers became worse and was taken to bellevue hospital and put in the insane pavilion there he became v and went from one spasm into another until exhausted the physicians are still inclined to be lieve that it is a case of hydrophobia and say the patient will probably die |
