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Show DIED QUEER DEATIIS. 6TRANQE ENDINO OP TWO EASTERN OinLS. !! l)ln I-rlcked Here. It villi m K..ll. an Contentful lMk-,lf laag l-araon, Tralna.1 TCurt. Lottt Her Ml fcy Slo.qaltu llll. flSATIl as tho direct result al tin r ratch of n pin l the latest contribution contribu-tion of science to lb woe of uian-kind uian-kind Mix Jessie Devlno of 51 Seventh Sev-enth itreet, Long Island City. L. I. was tho victim of this peculiar death; tho ailment was tetanus, or, commonly spenklng, lockjaw She died In Bt. Jolin'a hospital, New York, In great agony, after having been treated by her family physician for malarli. It waa tho bnclllui, to say the experts, of tetanui, which produced tho fatal result. re-sult. The bug wai attached to the pin picked up and utlllied to pin together a small rent In her skirt. Instead of stitching, she repaired with n pin tho rent In her skirt The pin scratched her knee, for she was not an eipcrt In the use of pins. "You see," said her mother, who, kind and practical, never lose nn occasion to point to a moral, "that oven It a stitch In time did not sao nlns, it Is batter to be orderly " Jetslo smiled pleasantly and mended her skirt. She thought so Utile of n pin scratch on bar knte. A week afterward sho fell III. filio suffered from hendacho and uneasiness Her apprtlto was gone. She shivered In the heat. "It Is malaria," ma-laria," the family physician said, and he ordered quinine, a warm blanket, the remedies that one ued for colds In tempcrnto climate and for fever of the marshes In torrid climates. The hsadsche nnd the uneasiness persisted, (lsi Devlne felt a painful contraction of muKlea of face and hands. Boon the muscle of her face, cheeks and neck became rigid. She could not move them at all. The rigidity extended extend-ed to her back The remedy for malaria ma-laria had not the slightest effect upon , her. And all the persons whom the pattcnt'a parent consulted raid that surely Jessto Devlne had n mnlady more severe Uinn malaria, since all Us ths Pasteur dlsoovorlcs. The old Idea that tetanus Is a plague Is not so far out of reason as It may seem If n, ease of tetanus appears In on locality, why may uot there be reason to think that the cause of It dwells there In number? Other person may pick up cslls or pins and may be wounded by them In the same locality. lie prudent. Ucware of being scratched by a pin or by anything else " Jessie Dovlno Buffered exceedingly Sho could not breathe, she bad pairua In her throat, her Jaw wero set Sallcy-clate Sallcy-clate were used vainly. Narcotic and sedative could not ailay the severity of her spaims. All the care that thn scratch which she had received exacted exact-ed was uselts Her treatment for tetanus came too late Neither IT Ulbtcr, Dr. Lctcve, nor Dr Kdeon wouin criticize the physician who raw only malaria In the poor girl's complaint They said, when the questions put to them were not leading to criticism of him, that symptoms of lockjaw were not symptoms of malaria, but professional profes-sional courtesy sealed tholr lips when the question! were definite. "Kewaro of pin scratches," they all exclaimed, however. Mosquito bite, even when Inflicted by the New Jersey specie of these summer pests, are not considered serious seri-ous by msny persons That any healthy, strong human being should dlo because of such an Injury la almost al-most beyond the belief of all. That the bite la poisonous and sometimes becomes quite, painful I known to most llut Sister Aslaug I.ntsou, a trained nurse of the Norweglsn hospital, hos-pital, Brooklyn, la dead, nnd the doctors doc-tors ray becauso of n inoequlto bite Bister Aslaug was a powerful young womsn, tall, straight, and full of health. Bho was easily ahls to lift any patient In her wntd a most persons per-sons would lift n child Yet sho Is dead and all because n mosquito kissed kiss-ed her lips while she slept. When the time came for Sitter Aslaug As-laug to take her vacation there was much discussion a to where she should go. A family In Uogota, N. J , one of whose members she had nurseO back to health. Invited her very warmly warm-ly to stay with them during her holiday holi-day nnd held out tho Inducements of swimming and boating and crabbing In tho llackensack river. Hut Sister Aslaug was turned against this proposal propo-sal by her friend Sister Christina, who aald: "Don't go to Uogota, for the moj-qultoes moj-qultoes thero are as big a anlpe. Oome - flilllw lilt jnusn: neviNU, . bisti:h aslauo. symptoms were aggravated a hundred (old, A consultation was called. The physicians camo out of It with face - that tried to express assurance. Ilut they said that Miss Devlne should be taken at onro to tho hospital. Thsy had agreed that tho symptoms of her malady wero not those of malaria, but ' of tetanus of lockjaw, the dreadful plague that come In (ill tho legendary tales of villages, at certain period, lo kill thoie who walk barefooted In tho fields. How dreadful tho terror of tetanui In every one who hss lived In small, ancient villages knows There are hurried calls on shot-makers for boots that have soles thick as bosnls, thero are raking of fields for rusty nails, there nro n thousand recommendations to children to bo careful Dr. Olbler, f ' pupil of I'astciir, aas. "Surely, a pin may give lockjaw, and the prejudice ' against rusty nails about tetanus la justified. Perhaps we will find some day that science csn only prove the reasonablene of Initlnctlvo fear. The pin that scratched Mis Dsvlno was probably picked from tbe ground by her. The bacilli of tetanus are In the earth. Tbsy clutter around sharp metallic things by virtue or ft law of nature that la. relentless and profound , and that wo may not explain. Dr, Paiteur's experiments have proved that. lie has discovered tho antiseptic antisep-tic against the poison of tetanus In the serum that ha dons so much good everywhere, lie take that serum from tho blood nf horses" "Surely," said Dr Alnio I.cteve, pupil of Klchat, "pins are more dangerous than hammers. ham-mers. A blow from a hammer may ttun only. A pin may glvo malaria, is a mosquito dees, by wounding, A . pin may give diphtheria, phthisis, yel low fever, tetanus. Tetanus cornea of bacilli that grovels In tho earth. They may not know that pins transmit them easily to tbe human body. They may not be Intelligent enough to select their medium Ilut tber I a blind Instinct that makes them go to pins, nslls, fish hooks all .polntod Initru-menta Initru-menta and cluster around them. De-ware De-ware of pins!" Dr. Cyrus Hdson said- "Yea, tbe rooit advanced physicians believe that there Is a microbe of tetanus There Is an antidote for It, as for diphtheria, jtllnw fever and otr complaints In with Sister Wllhelmlna and me to Mystic, Conn., where we know ot a nice summer boarding houie." "Are thsre no motqultoc there?" laughed Slater Aslaug "Just a few," replied her friend, ''but they are not ferocious like those In New Jersey." And so tho thrco nurses set out for Mystlo and took up their quarters In the houso of William II. Noyca. Ths mosquito Joke waa kept up and Sister Aslaug pretended to be dUsatlsDed bo-cause bo-cause she sometime at night heard ths Insect buxilng. One morning she made a discovery. "See," she said, Indicating a slight swelling on her lower Up, "tbat'a where one of our Mystlo mosquitoes haa bitten me after keeping me awake all night I could uot be much worse off ven If I had gone to Uogota " This accident was made food for whimsical comment all through the day. At nightfall the swelling had Increased and gave pain. Slater Aslaug As-laug applied a simple lotion to tbe place.Jjut In tho morning her faro was completely disfigured by thn swelling and her suffering was extreme. She consulted a doctor and he prescribed n remedy, which had no effect. Her face, swollen to twice Its normal size, was also discolored Fancying that they recognized the symptoms ot blood poisoning, hor comrades com-rades sent word to the mother superior supe-rior of the Norwegian hospital Hbe and Dr. fluenther alarted Immediately for Connecticut, for Sister Aslaug was dearly loved, but before they reached Uystlo ihe had died In a convulsion. |
