The New York Herald Newspaper, July 2, 1874, Page 5

THE SUMMER CURSE. Death of Roderick Entwistle, the Printer, at Bellevue Hospital Yesterday. Post-Mortem Examination of the Corpse. DOCTORS DISAGREE. Varying Opinions Among Them— Hydrophobia Not Believed To Be the Cause of Death. WTERVIEWS WITH MEDICAL MEN. see LS The Feeling in the City—Another Case Reported at Orange—Mad Dogs Kiiled Yester- da, —Letters from the People. ‘There ts no abatement in the painful interest of | the community on tne subject of hydrophobla, So- ciety demands the death of all dogs unowned, un- housed, unprotected and uncared for, A startling death {rom the mysterious dis- ease, communicated by a dog pronounced gage and = in bodily health, naturally Plkced allon their guard against the too close in- timacy with the dangerous quadrupeds, and for a time the pulling of @ dog’s tall, or pinching his ears in sport will be unfasnionabie, In all parts of this and the adjacent cities stray dogs are out- | lawed, Everybody is apt not alone to give an | unknown hdund a wide berth, but quite ready | to suggest for him a bad name, which to the brute, in the present state of public feeling, is fatal. Our policemen slay mad dogs im every direction and partially quiet public appre- hension by their alertness and precision of alm, The work of wholesale slaughter goes on at the pound with a better system than heretofore, Still the slaugtiter is too much confined to one section ef the city. We need more efficacious methods to clear the strects which are distant from the death-pen of their poisoning prowlers, Brooklyn has passed an ordinance making it the duty of the police to slay at sight every loose unmuzzied dog. Can we not with profit import that, notion from the City of Churches? It needs but little, after the death from hydrophobia in Bellevue Hospital yesterday, te inauce the population to declare a war of exter- ination against the whole race of canines, DEATH OF ENTWISTLE. Roderick Entwistle, the printer, who suffered from symptoms of hydrophobia on Monday and Tuesday, died yesterday morning in the greatest suffering at Bellevue Hospital, at half-past cleven | clock. During the morning bis physical condi- | tfon tad been perceptibly on the decline, and it became evident as the day wore on that he would not survive it. Still the death was somewhat more sudden than had been expected, and when he finally gave the last sigh at the moment stated the tact did not surprise those wno were in attend- | ance, IN THE DEADHOUSE. | Within avery short time alter Entwistle snowed | ihe last signs of Jife he was taken from his bed in ‘whe ward of the hospital where he had been lying and was conveyed to the deadhouse, adjoining the medical department. The Coroner was notified, and also several eminent physicians, with the in- tention of giving full opportunity for any investi- gation which might be desired. Inaeed, it was Proposed to give the doctors in this case the fullest Opportuntty for a searching analysis. In the meantime the corpse of the unfortunate man was placed on a slabto await the arrival of the doctors, The features of the dead were com- posed and regular, and it would have struck even an unprofessional person that the muscular con- tortion during the last drama of life was not more than in any ordinary disease. The man when | alive was not of strong physique; but, though of powerful frame, much ron down, THE DOCTORS ON THE SOENE. About half-past one o’clock the medical gentle- | men began to arrive at the dead house. First | came a number of the staff and {acuity of Belle- vue Medical College ana Hospital, among them Dr. J. W. 8. Arnold, the Curator of the day, that ts to say, having charge of the dead of this particular day inthe Hospital; there came also Professor Wood and some students, and Drs. Cha- pin and Knox of the Hospital. After these a number of unattached physicians, among them Professor Hammond, Dr. F. H. Hamilton, Dr. Russell Kelly aud several others, | in all some eighteen medical gentiemen. This was @pout two o’clock and among them ail there seemed to be the greatest interest manifested in the case. They then went in to view the corpse. It Was proposed to begin the post-mortem examina- tion atonce, One of the medical gentlemen pres- | wee! His heartrending groans could be heard @ good distance from the house, and | so fearfal had his condition become that it was necessary to pinion the un- Bydrophobia. None of the medical gentlemen eons, while they did not generally seem to be- Neve in any hydrophobia in the case, would venture 80 Jar as to state What was the cause of death. Dr, Hamilton, in leaving the room, appeared to belteve in hydrophobla in the case and stated something to this purpose to @ person who was standing by. He was the only one among the physicians who even ventured so far as this. Shortly alter the post-mortem wae duisned CORONER WOLTMAN and his deputy, Dr. Shine, arrived, and were not a little surprised to learn’ that all their work had been done before they arrived on the ground aud without their being consulted tn the shghtest. No open rupture took place between these officials and Dr. Hammond, though it was evident that no | ry good feeling subs count. After having co: tions of the rnold, com- iy to A rising the medulla oblongata, a portion of the larynx and some of the ler which was in the } larynx, a8 well a8 much of the biood, the doctor left the place. Dr. Shine, the Deputy Coroner, then made @ hasty examination of the body, and then waited for Dr. Arnola, who had gone over to = fori eer ee —_— @ microscopic examina- jon of the p: in LS possession belore certificate of burial. ns DR. SHINE’S OPINION, Dr, Shine said that the manner in which the doctors had proceeded was not only a matter of discourtesy to those who had invited them to be presen: atthe autopsy, but was also positively legal. The doctor said that he did not believe irom what examination be had made that this was in any way to be cons.dered a case of hydrophobia. He béheved that alcoholism wag the main cause of death, as it had been shown that the dead man bad very loose habits and was addicted to excessive Seating: Having received a | bite trom & dog, as he had, being @ printer and | receiving constantly in his hands, for the purpose | of setting up, tems about hydrophopia, the mat- ter had no doubt preyed on ‘his mind and superin- duced a belie! that he would be subject to the dis- oye pamaenn tae vane taal Hai ad weakened le 5 on great nervous prostra- ton and resulted in death. Ly ¥ by WHAT DR, ARNOLD SAY3. When Dr. Arvold returned he stated that he had made microscopic examinations of the portuons of the body which he had in his possession and he nd nothing in them to Eolas 9 the idea that patient died of hydrophobia. He had exam- ined the blood careiully under the microscope and found it to in @ normal con- dition, He also examined the viscous deposit which had been taken from the larynx and found it to be in a much decomposed state, Inaeed laryngitis or inflammation or the larynx was ali that he could find affecting sm nt. did not believe tits tO be & case Ol hy- | ent. He Exophobia. Dre. Chapin and Knox were also of the same opinion, STILL FURTHER TESTS. Dr. Arnold has now possession of two small dogs with which he proposes to make what he says 13 the only test of whether the dead printer had | hydrophobia. He will inject some of the mucus from the larynx of the dead man into the veins of the two dogs and will await patiently the time when they may show some signs of madness, This is an experiment which will take and perhaps months, and which will be @ final test of the theory of hydrophobia in this case. One of these dogs was injected last night and another will be treated in the same manner | this morning. Dr. Arnold bas also placed what Fea een of the brain of the dead man he possesses acid, so as to preserve it Le gore 9 for mi- crosco} plot examina nods which will not be before me day After all these proceedings, Coroner Woltman and Dr. Shine granted a certificate of death, say- ing that Roderick T. Entwistle, a native of Eng- land, died on July 1, and that the cause of death was “exhaustion from nervous excitement follow- ing the bite of a dog, supposed to be rabid. The {aquest will take place at ten o’clock this morn- ng. ANOTHER CASE OF HYDROPHOBIA. An Agonizing Death in East Orange— A Strange Case—What the Physicians Say. Tne death of a gentleman named Ames took | Place on Monday at his residence in East | Orange, and is attributed to bydrophobia. The deceased first showed signs of the derange- ment on Sunday last. He was very petulant and morose during the forenoon of that aay and complained of the oppressiveness of the beat. While in the act of putting a tumbler of water to his lips the glass dropped from his pow- erless hand and he was seized with a violent choking sensation, followed by ao tremor, which shot through his frame with the rapidity of lightning, and the paroxysms which accompany the fearful malady of hydropho- bia commenced. The sufferings of the victim showed ail the too familiar signs of the madness, He foa.ned at the mouth and attempted violence. fortunate gentieman, in order to prevent some greater calamity. Dr. Holmes was present and id kg ety his power to assuage the raving man’s agony, but all in vain. Medical skill could do nothing for the doomed sufferer, and on Mon- day night death rescued him irom his misery. Dr. Rosenfeld, of Orange, said that two cases, at least, of hydrophobia had come to his knowl- edge in which the disease had not resulted from a bite of any kind whatever. One case was most re- markabie. It was that of @ satlor who was in- fected from having put into his mouth @ rope’s ena that had previously been gnawed by a dog. The other was of a lady who had her dress torn by @ dog and put it into her mouth in order to pull out the torn piece. In both of these singular cases the parties died from the effects of their im- | prudence. A STRANGE SCENE IN WILLIAMS. BURG. & Last night about eight o’clock an excited crowa of people assembled in the vicinity of Ewen street, Williamsburg. It appeared that a woman, who had yesterday morning been bitten by a dog, was running about seemingly deranged. She was promptly placed in a wagon by two policemen and conveyed to the Sixth precinct station house, from whence she was conveyed to her residence, No. 140 Ewen street. By this time a tremendous crowd had assembled on the street, where the most conflicting rumors prevailed. A represent- ent said that as four had been the hour fixed tor the post-mortem it was perhaps better to wait until then, and that in any case it was bardly legal to begin the autopsy until the Coroner had arrived, a8 the case was one which legally belonged to this city functionary. Dr. Ham- Mond, however, overcame these objections by Saying that in another case he had conducted the post-mortem before the arrival of the Coroner, and he did not see any objection to the ceremony beginning at once. THR POST-MORTEM. Dr. Knox, of Bellevue, was requested to do the | practical work of the examination. He began by removing the scalp of the unfortnuate Entwistle, after which he proceeded to scparate the upper and lower wall of the skull all round. The brain ‘was found to be congested and far from in a natural condition. Evidences of alcohol were jound, and it was the opinion that this poison had leit the marks of its existence im the subject. After this portion of the body had been thor- oughly examined Dr. Knox proceeded to cat open ‘the body. The larynx was the next portion Of the body examined. It was jound that there was a heavy deposit of viscous fluid. As this ig one of the Most remarkable proofs of the pres- ence of hydrophobia, without being a positive one, the examination at this point was very minute abd carel' ‘This Viscous fluid, having the consistency of gelatine in ee ke portion of it was taken @way and preserved, ing handed over to Dr. | arnold, who put a part of it ina bottle. Here it was thought, was yc the only symptom oi the pre- vious. [Page of hydrophovia in the bouy. Alter ‘this the cutaneous covering of the body was re- moved over the chest and abdomen. This part of the operation was conducted by Dr. Knox, and in @ few moments the entire osseous frame of the anterior portion named of the body was removed @t one time, laying bare all the interior organs. The heart, the lungs, the liver and the spleen were then carefully examined and subsequentiy the kidneys. Before this, however, a small glass thermometer had been inserted into the interior of the stomach to ascertain the temperature of the body at the time of the experimental post mortem, Upon withdrawing it the somewhat REMARKABLE FACT ‘was announced that the thermometer showed the body to be at the point of 103 degrees Fahren- } heit, that is to say blood heat. Kven the doctors themselves were surprised at this Showing. Then began the examination into the organs above named. The heart, lungs and liver were found to be in fair Dormal condition, as also the kidneys. The spleen, however, was found to be slightly affected and showed some signs of congestion. Aiter this nothing more remained to be done except to remove a portion of each of the parts affected for future examination. These were pode) to Dr. Arnold to test at lis leisure. During e whole post mortem the stench in the room was yemarkably strong. DOCTORS DIFFER. When the post-mortem was over and the por- tions of the body cut away were put back tn their place, there appeared to be the most varying opin- ions concerning the case among the doctors. None of them even on being questioned seemed at all disposed to give any opinion upon the cause of death, They were almost unanimous on one Point, however, that death was not the re- sult of hydroptol Dr, Hammond did not believe it was a case of real hydrophobia. He believed the ative of the HERALD, escorted by an officer, en- tered the dwelling of the injured woman, Mrs, Mary Neller, who was found sitting on a chair -and apparently very much excited, and bh side her were Captain Keiser, Surgeon Loewen- stein and @ sergeant of the Sixth precinct. | Mrs. Neller asked, pleadingly, for a drink of water, which was given her. She quickly drank. She | then began to tear her dress, and was in the act of tearing her hair, when she was prevented by the Captain, who persnadea her to sit down. Again she asked for a drink, which was brought her. This time she clutched the cup, drank down the water, then gave about haif @ dozen yelps, resembling the bark ot a dog, aiter which she commenced to vomit, | her body every now and again giving a convulsive sbrug. Alter @ while she talked about the work she had done during the day in @ rational manner. She was asked whether she had been bitten by a dog, to which she firmly answered, ‘I was bitten Dy a dog this morning in the thumb.” The Doctor examined her thumb and there discovered a slight Scratch. A Mr. Rusch, who resides in Ewen stree| subsequently stated that he was told his dog ha heart and tric organs to the pneumogastric } Rerve, and the spasins of the larynx to the epinal | cor bitten Mrs, Neller, but for the truth of the state. ment he could not answer, however. The dog was shot. The Doctor gave it as his opinion that he did not think there was any hydrophobia in the case. The woman had done @ heavy day’s wash- ing, and, coupled with the fact of the dog being shot, would have caused the excitement. HYDROPHOBIA. A Cure Indicated=—Dr. Hammond’s Ex- periments and What They Have Led To. Surgeon General Hammond has, as he believes, found the cause of hydrophobia and has indicated the cure. When visited by @ HERALD representa | tive yesterday he had under the examination of a | very poweriul microscope a portion of the neuritis cut of close to the medulla oblongata of Mr. William McCormick, whose death seems to have become of so much benefit to all his fellow crea- | tures, The pneumogastric nerve appeared in a state of fatty degeneration and abso- lutely overlaid with abnormal globules of oi, The neurolemna, or nerve covering the membrane, was very much injected, To | @ lay observer it appeared like a thin red rivbon | over a map of the moon, with numberless balloons floating over It. Now, the red ribbon and the | balloons are the abformai features, never before seen in any disease except hydrophobia and never before so carefulfy noted, Dr. Hammond was quite excited over nis dis- covery, and spoke rapidly. He said THE BSSENTIAL FRATURB of hydrophobia appears to we fatty degeneration Of the nuciett of the pneumogastric spinal acces- sory hypergiossal nerves, which degeneration likewise exists in the nerves themselves, essen- tially im their roots. With this @ similar condition exists in the cortical substance of the brain itself and the large ganglia at the base of the brain, syd IS THERE A CURE? man had been bitten by a dog, but that death was not the result of this. [t might, however, have resulted from nervous prostration consequent upon the Jears ai the Tyan thal DE FRRdh Daye 5 An obscure but meritorious Italian doctor, Schivardi, sent to Dr. Hammond a pamphlet of ‘Dis, published in 18A8, on hydrophobia. He advo- | cage thy nasal NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JUL Grows the brain and spinai cord of the indl- vig' In Hammond's “Treatise on Diseases of the Nervous System” ne made certain observations which nearly and very remarkably accord with his extremely recent discovery. He remarked | there on tee hypersstheric condition of the hemi- | res of the ‘Drain, of the medulla oblongata and the upper spinal cord. Tne haducinatiuns point vo Qerangement of the hemiapheres, tl de- rangement of the respiratory orga) the THE GALVANIC TREATMENT of Dr. Schivardi was apphed in one case in feeble | current for nineteen yours. The patient was much , improved, and entirely relieved of symptoms of | rabies, but, owiug to some misunderstanding, the | treatment was no? continued as intended, and the patient was un/ortunately allowed to die, Jn another case with a girl nine years of age & current from twenty-two of Daniell’s cells was | passed from the soles of the jeet to the forenead for fifty-eight hours, ‘The patient lived seven Gays | and seven hours, an unheard of incident in all the annals of hydrophobia, ‘ For the last two days there were no hydrophobic symptoms whatever. THE CURB. , Dr. Hammond believes in the application of a strong galvanic current at the first seizure with | bydropbobia, That, he eays, a and, he believes, a gure one. It should be applies directly to vhe nape of the neck, to act on she spinal cord, and the pheumogastric nerve, an algo to the muscles of the face aud throat, CONFIRMATORY STATISTICS. ‘ Hydrophobia always Kills in irom three to sidpog days. In filty oases recorded, as in the following, the disease took two days in two cases, three days in twenty cases, four days in thirteen cases, five days in two cases, six days in three cases, | seven days in one case. In Algeria the mean du- ration of the disease has been {ound to be four 3. Oye cemoi! Boulaye states that out of ninety cases i ts the best chance, | be said that the genus homo gained during the day Several poinis on the canines, Captain Marriott, Qt tbe Pound, very sciepuifically and comfortably slew 123 of the qua ie by one breath of carbonic acid gas, administered with the | Improved apparatus, which three weeks of ex- periment has at last brought into use. He put | aside the two wine casks and the chemicals wnich Dr. Doremus prescrived for the domestic manu- facture of the requisite fluid and returned to the administration of the compresseds gas in cylindri- cal iron tanks, brought from the Quaker City of Brotherly Love, O1 these two were connected with the great wooden death chamber. Firet the air Was pamped out with two large exhausting tudes; then the gas was let in upon the six score of ‘doomed dogs. It rushed with great force into the partial vacuum, soon fihing the space in which the curs were coutined, They were not at that point in the best cond.tion a¥ to breath, having Dothing in thetr lungs except the tenuous air left them by the working of the pump. Two or three inhalations of the heavy poisonous gas irom the ee City sufMiced to asphyxiate the animals. ‘ot a sound Or motion was percepripie in the tank alter ten minutes from the introduction of the gas. in twelve minutes it Was evident that every dog was still. You might wager they were all “dead | for a ducat,” and it was demonstrated that expe- rience had slowly worked outa better method of suffocating curs than the original plan of tarow- ing gas Into a tight vessel already full, or the al- most equally unsatistaciory pian of making the | gas on tue premises irom muriatic acid aud | sods calamities which could befall all classes and } daan cOube Smorthe thay i enurn:| colore at the South would be the social intermIx: | | content. He este! . hyd ing of the races, to result from the enjorcement | | seas nena gosterday’s | moe | of” the civil rights fanaticism and barbarism, of slaughter almost as good as the ol-fas | plan o} drowning the eneties who thre: joned ten us ted by bim seventy-four died in four days, only euen surviving beyond that limit. Death bith erto bas been inevitable I er ag go Sehi- dis case, the secon cure. patient died of exhaustion, She was attacked on the 27th of April, 1868; the disease manifested itgell on the 26th: she came to hospital on the 29th and died at two A. M. on the 5th o May, the eighth Oey @ last two daya all symptoms of rabies’ dis- appeared, She was in a torpor, her jace was pale, occasionally flushed, pulse weak, and she expired quietly Without any delirium or apparenc pain. Q@aLVaNisM IS IN ITS INFANCY as to hydrophobia., It may, and pr. bably w: applied wrongly, too strong. or too weak. “The 1s the cure,” said Dr. Hammond. of strength, &c., are to be found by experience. WHAT TO DO IF BITTEN. “Cut it ont,” said the Doctor. Apply ether to deaden the sensibility and remove pain, and un- hesitatingiy and at once cut away the part affected, Caustic is not efficacious. It may retain the poison while salving {t over. It does not require a mad dog to produce a hydrophobic bite. Perfec*ly rational beasts have killed people. Pilet Commissioner Blunt day wrote to tell of & case within his own edge where a man died of hydrophobia and the dog which bit him lived comfortably six years alterward, THE ENTWISTLE CASE. Dr. Hammond thought this death was emphatic- ally not due to hydruphobia, but to inflammation of the membrane 01 the brain, Interview With Dr. Clymer. Dr. Meredith Clymer, President of the Neuro- logical Society, was visited yesterday on another Matter by a HERALD representative, and drifted off into some talk about the present absorbing in- quiry into the phases of hydrophobia presented in recent cases. It is, perhaps, hardly fair to record his very informal utterances, but anything from his Nps on such subjects must necessarily be vaiuabje. He entertained consid- erabie misgivings as to the results of the present exhaustive examination, which 18 of such in- tense public interest, He is not prepared The | ‘The proportions | exter. | nowl- | an hour belore the doors of tue chamber were shgutest four of slightest fear of any speedy resurrection ior ai | whelp of the cartload of dead dogs. ‘The entire batch was ready for transmutation tuto those arti- cles of use and ornament wh.ch emanate irom the oftal dock and Barren Island, Through yesterday the vagabonds and others { | | who serve ine clty by catching and transferring Y 2, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. peerietan apet at Aten Ar. Bergw’s so- | ture snould bring jorward & candidate | bly yesterday's method wil! be the one be ‘& | impersonating the third term principle, if he | The breathless brutes were allowed to remain for ‘Then it Was evident there was not the THE THIRD TERM. | DRIFT OF POLITICAL DISCUSSION. 7 ‘The Canvass for the Presi- | dency. Governor Kemper, of Virginia, Craves a Cesar. Kemper for Cuesar. Governor Kemper publishes in the Kichmong papers to-day a letter, of which tbe following are extracts :— 1 do not believe the country can remain in its resent abnormal condition, We are gcing (o have either popular seli-government or central | imperialism. [ integg to stand for the liberty side as long as a fragment of itremains. 1 am Opposed to a third term for the reason that, not- | withstanding the past, | nave faith im the cause { 1 constitutional free’ government; but I oppose some other evils still more. One of the cruelest and it is hard to conceive what greater evil than | his stand on our safe, conservative ground of uni- versal reconciliation and peace under the cons tution, and if, so standing, he should be opposed by any champion of the ctvtl riguts iniquity, then, third termer, that principle. | the hounds to the Pound came slowly torward. | Many brought pups of tender age. They were Dot | accepted. ‘the eity 1s not plethoric enough in purse to buy every whelp that can wmne. They must be dogs to command the municipal premium o1 fifty cents. Custodians of intantine canines waste their time in bringing them to Captain | Marriott. He knows a pup from adog, even though the snarier 13 brought by a different boy ten times a day, as happened yesterday; and, though gen- erous in the purchase of real dogs, he | 18 as inexorable as Comptroller Green in refus- ing the stamps for puppies in leading strings. By night the Pound had some eignty barking in- | Mates, They wili be jerried across the Styx by the gas process on Friday, when the Pound will be cleared. Independence Day wil be a special Sun- | day ot silence iu the puriieus of the canine jump- ing of piace. WHAT THE PEOPLE SAY. Vigilance the Price of Safety. To THE EvITOR OF THE HERALD:— We have had enough talk about this dog ques- tion, Let us have actton—defnite and immediate. | As the matter stands, it 1s like a man bleeding to | death from @ cut artery, while the doctora are wrangling over the proper method of taking it up. Let us have done with this senseless talk of human- | poisoned, crowned or disposed of at once, If Mr. Bergh, our ubiquitous champion of the oppressed, chooses to experiment upon the curs, I can see no reason why the slaughter of the friendless should ate Tesibtceakna cae hippie | be interrupted and human lives endangered by He thinks the abnormai appearance in tha | Stupid interference in a matter with which, congested organs may have been occasioned by , While the law invests him with authority, incidental or accidental causes not peculiar to hy- drophobia, and’ believes the disease to be from | | blood poison, hke snake bite. There 1s no cure. | ‘There may be an antidote and the antidote may | be discovered, but he has little Jaith in any soch discovery speedily. MCORMICK’S CASE. The Reported Discovery of Its Mode of Communication Into the System—Is it = | Blood Poison or a Purely Nervous Dis. | ease !—Views of Eminent Medical Men. It will be recollected thaton the adjournment | of the McCormick jury Dr. Hammond was in- | trusted with the microscopic examination of the parts of the body requiring such mi- nute investigation. It was understood that | the jury would be called together about | the 15th inst for the purpose of hearing the re- port of his observations and coming to a decision | upon them. But although the jury has not yet been summoned nor been informed authoritatively of the result of Dr. Hammond’s examinations, a re- port has spread abroad that the learned Doctor has Made a most important discovery that when pushed further by more extended investigations will most probably lead to a thorough and com- plete understanding of the terrible disease, and, consequently, to an effective means of curing it, The discovery sald to have been made is that hydrophobia is a nervous disease, and not a blood poison. be certainly THE MOST IMPORTANT DISCOVERY OF THE AGE in medical science, and wonld lead to a complete . revolution in the manner of treating persons aMictead with hydrophobia. It wonld, fact, settle @ point that has stantly @ matter of dispute between the most eminent men of the profession ever since the times of Hippocrates and Galen, when Medicine was in its infancy. Although the state- ment cannot be considered as strictly authentic or exact until if comes authoritatively from Dr. Hammond himself, it has mneverthe- | legs aronsed considerable interest in medi- | cal circles. Dr. Hammond was well known to be strongly predisposed to the acceptance of such a theory, as he was an avowed follower of | the school of igs Sequard tn vhis branch of med- ileal science, a8 0} | sms to that of Virchow, who held that hydrophobia is a blood poison. There- fore, while acknowledging the great ability of Dr. Hammond, many eminent medical men were in- clined to be cautious in accepting the conclusions of @ man who was half convinced beiore he under- took the examination in question, even supposing the statement to have been correcily given. With a view to ascertain the views of some of | the other medical men associated with Dr, Ham- moud on McCormick's jury, on this important sub- ject, @ HERALD reporter called on the greater number of them yesterday. Some of them were | doubtful of the advisibility of making any state- ment on such an important subject till they should from Dr. Hammond bimself the | result of his examinations, and the matter should have been discussed at length by the jury of doc- tors who investigated McCormick’s case. Of this | namber was Dr, Schoonover, who may be taken as @ specimen of those who did not think fit to com- mit themselves, Dr. Schoonover,.of No. 678 Lexington avenue, had not read the publisned report o! Dr. Ham- mond's supposed discovery, but had heard some- thing about it. On being shown it, he read it over and sald it was evidently the reporter who spoke, | not the doctor, and that he thought he would not be justified in marie a) statement on 80 important a question, one that required such close examination and re- | peated experiment, until he had the regular re- | ort of Dr, Hammond belore him and had studied | it closely dnd thought over it. He said the jury | had only adjourned pending the microscopic ex- amination, and would be called together again early this month to hear the report and discuss it, Until notified of such a meeting he could not feel sure that Dr. Hammond had com- | pleted his iavors. He regretted that he had | hot received some of the parts to be examined, as it would afford him much gratification to study | them, and other members of the jury, besides Dr. | Hammond, had been given portions of the portion | of McCormick's body affected by the disease. Con- | sidering all these things he thought it better to re- main silent till the jury shonld meet again. | DR. ALLIN M’LEAN HAMILTON, | Another of the jury said he did not consider the reported reguits arrivea at by Dr. Hammond as | conclusive, but thought there was certainly some- thing in them, The same post-mortem appear: | ances occur In Other convulsive diseases, and ex- | ‘and probably. the violence of the convulsions, @ most import- | ant thing im the case of McCormick, is the soiten- | | ing Of the seventh, eighth and ninth cranial nerves. If Dr, Hammond’ finds this it will _be the decisive | point in the Con Dr, A. McL. Hamilton | thinks the Board of Health should have complete | control of the disposal of dogs, as most cases of | Waren come from dogs that have shown few, if any, previous ad But he is decidedly Opposed to the indiscriminate seizure of dogs, | . AT THE POUND. | inaneyeectpenennyneaet One Hundred and Twenty Dogs Mervi- fally Killed, Though the dog demon triamphed signally over humanity yesterday morning in the death of Rod- erick Entwistle from hydrophobia at Bellevue Hospital, yet the brutes had hot the contest en- oLe comtunuous galvaulo Gurrent | sinely 19 sheds Own hands, On the whale, i may i I¢ this should prove to be true it would | there is no necessity for action on his part. Talk seems to be the limit of these experimental hu- man geniuses, whereas in thirty minutes the mat- ter can be settled whether poison, gas, water or the sand ciub is the proper method of administer- ing the quietus. Let them choose their method at once and relieve the city of the worthless curs in- | | festing it so that one may permit his children to | romp in the street without danger, or necessity | (which is always the mother of invention) will oblige us wo go armed, like the knights of old, and a general Fourth of July and a masaacre of unmuz- zled dogs will be the resuit. pale ton to the dangerous dog will suit, zw YORK, June 30, 1874, i. V. B. The Ultimatum of a Homeopathist. To THs EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— that ‘the disease is incurable.’ successfally.”” flesh is heir to. est experience in its Da diagnosis wien called upon. My assertion, al Hahnemann school, Is, nevertheless, founded upon actual true, experiment. ia velladonna, and not the alk pliant (atropine), as used recently, with i — in the case of a man bitten in ‘ork, | used ity, and let the homeless and friendless curs be | To conclude, less talk, more powder and exter- | I would respectiully beg leave to announce through your columns the views of a hommopath- 1st in relation to that areaded disease hydrophobia (rabies cantina). It affords nearly all of the educated homeopathic fraternity a vast deal of amusement | times that class will inevitably succeed. toread the opintons of medical men who assert | Country 1s practically divided into two parties, Better to say | they are “too ignorant of its pathology to treat it nomination of a party convention, secured as it usually is by familiar means, the unbiassed action | Now, in reality, hydrophobia is no | | A President tn more incurable than the simplest afecuon human | Any skilful homeopathic physt- | cian can successiully combat it without the slight- | rticular action beyond his though It may seem to savor of egotism toward the and such of my brethren as may not be famtllar with the | mode of procedure in cases of rabies, 1 would in- | form them tnat the remedy ea ia the oor ew | are founded upon the conviction of the country | The strychnos nux vomica can also be | that with the enormous power vested in the Caief in | in conjunction in cases of the milder | Executive he can, ina great degree, command his | i | type. The antidote will never fail if judiciously | been con- | administered, and it isto be hoped that the syco- | unobtrusive beginnings that popular systems are | call upon President Grant in Washington shortly aiter Governor Kemper’s tnauguration, which oc- casioned much comment at the time. This visit, he says, Was one of courtesy, made in response to a courteous invitation from the President that the Governor should call and make bis acquaintance, | and in making the call he claims that he was only carrying out the Virginia conservative platform, which pledged the party to judge every act of General Grant on its own merits, He remarks:— I went, because under my convictions of duty | and propriety, I made up my mind to go, and | under circumstances to justity it again, 1 should | its publication would have done credit to him and to me, and no discredit and no harm to any a | of the country or the peopie. As to the Federal Executive head, I shall render bim, not factious | hostility, but @ fair and unprejudiced judgment, For the sake of ourselves and the whole country, I | shall rejoice if he so emulates the example of Wastington; ifhe so aids in restoring the land- marks of the constitution, lately overthrown by the violence of arms; if he so respects the right of the States and the people to self-government, as to | command our united and hearty support of the whole of his future adwministration. So far as bis influence has saved us irom the degrada. | tion of test oaths and the Civil Rights law; so far should cut loose from old party trammels and take | f in a ‘contest between the two, the conservative party ought, in my opinion, to go decidedly, but as an Organized party, and not otherwise, for the | et with a protest on their lips | | agatnost the third term principie and ia spite of | The Governor recites the circumstances of his 5 fields. Proudly and My conscious of having discharged thelr duties well these heroes were again transformed into ‘the happy, chee: but proud and independent sone Of honest toil. e3e men are the governing element in the sation, They read the morning papers and think. They will bave much to say about wh all be elected President in 1876, They will dispose of the ques- tions of third terms and life terms in the Prest- dential office without consulting the Nuw YoRK HBRALD OF any one else. Ceesariam No Remedy for the South. {From the Brooklyn Eagle.) The sentiment here 1s that the government has, on the whole, stood well the strain to which it was subjected; that the ills of the South are reparable ; that “whoso abideth in the ship shall come safe to shore.” NSorthward the signs of conservative reaction muitiply. Republicanism itself is moder- ating its severity as the opposition strengthens in force. Men of all parties have here refused to elevate this Cwsarisin above the manger of comedy and persifiage in which it was bora, Two terms a8 @ limit comport with the most controlling and exalted precedents in our history. The unwritten laws are the strongest, and the unwritten laws are against this triplication of the Meee, 4 10 @ sin- ge person. The idea runs against tuat bed rock of mericanism on which our institutions rest, and vy which thse throwing themselves against it are dashed to pieces. Not @ politician 18 likely to be found hardy enough to try the experiment. The lightuing would strike him gent y in compartson With the blow he woula receive from the “quiet home vote.” The only ald which the innovatory idea has received has been from sensational or alarmist minds and from the monotonous medioc- rity of contemporary republican statesmen, After Grant, apne, oa —— but after Grant, who & is a question which st ogee those whom it con- cerns, The Jeading republicans are al] of the same size. Morton is as big as Conkling, and Sherman small as Edmunds, and Blaine 1s marked ditio {n the political bill of lading, A party with power and without @ policy has bred statesmen with no statesmen attributes about them. Grant was pat | in for @ seeona term for fear the South would oe | restive, That apprenension las been ubated and the second term has been absorbed in varnishing the corruptions of the first. Even that work is not halt done. The most satisiactory adminisira- tion never was multiplied by three. And the lea:t satisfactory never will be. The despair of the South is the best count in the Northern tudictmens of the party which drove the South to that des- pair, and the party in this secuion affecting third | termism will only show that it prefers suicide to slaughter, because there will hardly be enough leit Of it to Kill, It is the condition of the South which renders Governor Kemper’s letter noteworthy. 16 is the temper of the North that will make the ex- traordinary propositions of that letter happily un- feasible. Cmsarism is no remedy or the South, and the South will find that to be so. [1 is simply | ridiculed by the Norfh, and the politicians have already found that to be so, THE FRENOH PRESS, Le Progris du Nord, a radical newspaper, & rare et peo erst ket gi sere bose publisned at Lille, whose chief editor ts wit he President, and shal ot so Violate | ”) Propriety as to allude to Its particulars, yet 1 rg- | “> Masure, formerly Chef de Cabinet to gret that every word of it could not have becn | M. Gambetta during the Tours Dictator- ’ taken down and published, for, although I say it, | ship, has been, June 19, condemned to 2,000 francs fine and 600 francs damages for propa- gating {aise news and puolishing jivellous articles against the Jesuits and Dominicans, L’Echo du Nord, also published at Lille, has been con- demned to 500 francs fine and 500 francs damages for similar offences. These judgments carry costs. THE GERMAN CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION. The general meeting of the German Catholic As- Sociation adopted six resolutions, brougnt forward in the sitting of June 17 at Mayence. They are to the following effec as he has abstained from exercising the centraliz- | tng and dangerous powers of the Enforcement ac’ he is entitled to our gratitude and support. But emphatically do not indorse a great part of his | policy iu respect to @ national currency, and if he | adopts, a8 a rule of his administration, such inter- | meddling in local affairs as that just resorted to at _ Petersburg by the Attorney General of the Unitea | States, then he will establish between us and nim- , self a gulf as impassabie as that which separates | good trom evil in other lite. | In conclusion, Governor Kemper transmits copies of his letters to Colonel Mosby, written dur- | ing the Gubernatorial campaign last autumn. The | only noticeable passage in these is the tollowing:— | It were better to elect Grant the third ana the | seventh term than go under Hughes and his ne- groes, To us the defeat of negro rule here ts to Save society and decent existence, to save us {rom barbarism and ruin. The People Would Rise Against It. {From Harper’s Weekly.} If, Indeed, there be some great overshadowing there wil be ahard struggle, while in ordinary The and, with the existing methods, to call the of the people, ts to misuse words, office, the head of an organized and dominant arty, does not submit. himself to the impartial judgment of his fellow citizens in the convention. On the contrary, he has every opportunity - | of making that convention represent bis own wishes. To quote the examples of Johnson and | Fillmore and Tyler a3 illustrations of his prac- tical powerlessness is vain, because all three of | them had destroyed the parties by which they | were elected, and had no party organization upon which to depend. The unwritten law that a Presi- | id of the | dent shall serve for two terms only, and the grow- | | ing doubt whether one long term be not better, | own renomination, and thatit is by such quiet and phancy of the allopathists will no longer prevent | subverted. | them from saving the lives which ma‘ under their care. symptoms disappear. upon by the old tune of “Incarable.” BUSHWICK, June 29, 1874. HOMOPATH. The Vapor Bath as a Remedy. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— . The vapor bath remedy, in which Dr. A. M. L. Hamilton professes to believe, has been tried in me 100 Or more cases of hydrophobia and in no effect an entire cure. Many cases of rattlesnake bite have been cured by copious sweating of the victim produced by other means than the vapor | bath, and a much larger number of such cases by heavy doses of alcohol, imbibed in the form of whiskey, brandy or rum soon aiter the receipt of | A valuable pointer which, though not | the bite. my property, was a particular friend and daily companion of mine, being severely bitten by a rattlesnake, Was compelled to swailow immedit- | ately about a pint of whiskey—all there was at | hand. He was ver drunk and sick generally for the remainder o/ the day, but awoke next morning apparently in perfect health. Very soon it became evident that his hearing nad been greatly impaired by either the snake poison or its antidote, For several years thereafter he continued to accom- pany me almost daily, and, except that he re- mained semt-deal, Was in every respect the equal of his former self, But in no case of hydrophobia in Which narcotic poisons have been administered to mitigate the patient's suffering has the victim failed to die withio jorty-eight hours of the admin- istration of such “relief.” While the foregoing statements remain undis- puted—and they mig easily be disproved if they were not true—is it not an infamous outrage on humanity and common sense that the well known citizens Who are making up the list of victims to hydrophobia should be denied the simple remedies that experience has shown might be successful, and forced to submit to a scientific course of drug- ging that can ye result in the patient’s death ? To grant the 8 Ms misery” by drugging him to deatn, would be mercitul if 16 were not altogether probable that by causing him to sweat profusely he would be speedily cured. If the learned doctors of this city Will Dot stoop to # single trial of the latter treat. ment where a numan life is at stake, I beg leave to suggest that they may at leasttake a step in the rigut directton by experimenting for a cure on the dogs. Of two dogs bitten by the same rabid ant- mai let the one be well dosed with whiskey at | | travasation of the blood ts prod is once, and again, if need be, when symptoms of hy- | petty pilierers who disgrace the country and Tson. One perhaps, by and couaestive disexee ut: | drophobia have begun to develop, and let tho | Tester and. fatten. in high places” anu tended with convulsions, if convulsions with coma | ter receive the most scientific treatment that | low places in Wasuington, New York the patient will dle through paralysis of the | Would have been accorded a doomed man or | and elsewtero, there are 40,000,000 of free pnenmogastric nerve. All symptoms of hydro- | Woman. Of two horses in the agonies of hydro. | people and almost forty — States. That | | phobia are reflex. Extravasation i, er- | Phobia let the one be given a vapor bath and | among these Millions and in these States are ,the fraps, secondary, occurs’ from | the other the customary injections of morphine, | men who govern the nation, It Was among these | &c. When sweating and alcohol have been prove: a sure cure for the brute creation to the satisfac- tion of oureminent New Yerk physicians perhaps they will permit their human patients suffering | which groum from rabies to be cared ona pian which is none the leas reliabie for being at present wholly known to their practice. CBS. New York, June 27, 1874. General Butler's Cure for Curs. To THR EDITOR OF THE HERALD: Permit me through your oolumns to suggest to the authorities an easy and sure plan by which the | city can be cured of the canine curse, If they will only follow im the footsteps of General B. F, Butler, who, upon being tnformed that Norfolk, Va., was overrun with dogs, caused the following | terse order to be sent to the Provost Marshal:— “Let every fourth dog be kilied.’” The result is plain to any stands the simple rules of aritumetic. dew Yo UNE 20, 1874 SATCHETT, be placed The herb must be administered in slightly poisonous doses at intervals of seven | minutes in severe ca-es and diminished as the For the futnre let us trust | to do so {nm 1876. that the credality of the public will not be imposed iust.nce in which it was ever tried has tt failed to | rer’s prayer, to be “‘put out of | un- erson Who under- | The practical question is one of good sense, and | whoily impersonal. lt does not follow that, because under the circumstances of 1872 1t was wise to re- nominate the President, it would be equally wise | ‘The question is not whether | General Grant can be trusted Jor a third term, | | bus whether it is, upon the whole, wise to | | estabiish tne precedent, Is there” anything | in the President—highly as we honor him for is | | Services and patriotic as we believe him to be—or | | in his administration, which makes it desiraple or | | m any sense necessary to continue nim tor @ third | term that is not equally applicabie to a fourth aud | fifth term? Can any advantage be proposed from | such a precedent which is Hot ontirely overbal- | anced by the obvious disadvantages? There can | be no greater mistake than the suggestion that he | ig the only republican candidate who eoula be | elected, for the distinct understanding that he | | meant to stand Jor a third term would most prop- erly rend the party asunder and make tts success | utterly hopeless. In the total want of a great party issue. which might be relied upon to rally the voters, aud with @ party feud upon some of the most vital questions of public policy, no more victorious cry against the party tn power could be raised than it sought insidiously to change the character of the government. The | weakness of the republican party to-day is not the superiority of any policy proposed by the demo- crats—tor a democratic policy, in any just sense in | which words are used, is au unmeaning phrase— | but it is discontent within the party, arising trom | impatience with many of the men and practices which the party tolerates. Thousands of persons | | yoted for General Grant in 1872 under protest. | How many of them would vote for him in 1876 as a third term candidate, and with General Butler's civil service triumphant. We have no fear that General Grant proposes to make himself an te 9 & pope, but it should | be well understood before any pians are laid that there would be a general and decisive “uprising | | of the people” against any serious suggestion of a | | third verm, | | Diinols Repudiates Cresarism. [From the Illinois State Journal.) Should the Hon. E. B. Washburne be the nominee | of the National Republican Convention in 1876, he will be elected of course. But his nomination will not depend on the dictum of General Grant, Mr. | Washburne would spura such a nomination as | promptly as General Grant would spurn to assume to be a dictator to that or any other Convention. ‘The West and South are to be consulted about the | next candidate, and tieir free choice will deter- mine the question as to the next President. It the HERALD ‘will look around tt will discover that, bebind the little schemes and plots and plans at Wasiington—velind the rings aad rogues and | millions that the brave men were found. in private | station, and uncontaminated by the lust of power | | or love of place, who formed the mighty host | | slavery to powder and saved the Southern Senators and Congressmen used to talk Stage Bhd “Northern mudsilis,”? “greasy | mechanics and small-fisted farmers.” But when | | the time came for these gallant knights of the | round table to be introduced to the Northern chil- | | dren of tne plough, the loom and the workstop, ! whom they so grandly scorned, a mighty transform- ation had been wrought, and the despised sous of | toll appeared as a million of mailed warriors, ich eyes that never qnailed, cheeks that | never blanched and nerves, that never quivered, until the banner of the Unien was planted in triumph on every battle eld and | Waved over a restored Union and a truly (ree country. Slavery im the contest had been de- | stroyed, and 4,000,000 of the dusky chidren of | Second, it protests against the constitu issue before the country, the organization of the | interested class may not prevail; but even then | | originated in the rear of the cigar store at First, the association demands the re-establish- ment of the potitical independence of th pay ree: n of the German Empire and its foreign policy, more par- ticularly In so far as tt 1s directed against the Holy See. Third, the association favors the ameliora- tion of the condition of the working classes by comprehensive legisiation, initiated br the Ger- man governments. Fourth, the ecclesiastical at- tributes of priest and teacher appertaining to the Pope and the bishops cannot be abrogated or lm- tted by any State law, and the association there- fore denies the right of secular courts to depose bishops or to order the administration of their sees by the State. Fiith, the association approves the attitude of the German bishops and clergy, Stxth, an appeal is made to all Catholics to join tie association. AN ALLEGED SMUGGLIS3 CASE, Fifteen Thousand Dollars’ Worth of Silk Seized by the Government. An alleged smuggling case of unusual interest \ came up before Judge Nixon, in the United States \ Court at Trenton, N. J., yesterday, in which it is alleged on behalfof the United States that nine | tranks and one bag, containing 4,000 yards of silk, togetner with other property, were | Smuggled into the port of Jersey City on board | the steamsbip Russia in April last B. | Bean appears as claimant of the propert. which {8 valued at $15,000, The testimony o1 behalf of the government has closed, and the de- fence commenced to open by placing B. G. Bean on | the stand when the time for adjournment arrived. The line of the defence has not been disclosed yet, butitis anticipated that as it progresses to-day important developments will come to light. Sev- | eral Custom House officials in New York, it is alleged, are impticated in the matter, the state- ment being made that they acted im co lusion with | Bean in smuggling these goods into port. Much excitement prevails among some of the New York officials in consequence. A. Q. Reasby, District Attorney, appeare for the government. and Messrs. Brown and Clark, of New York, for the deience. BISMARCK AND EWALD. [From the Pall Mall Gazette, June 13.) Dr. Ewald, the learned author of “The History o: Israe},” has just been tried at Hanover for a libel on Prince Bismarck. The libel was contained in ao | article written by the Professor in a Particularist magesingy in which the Chancellor was compared to Frederick Il. aud Napoleon II.—with the former im “his anrighteous war with Austria and his ruination of religion and morality,” and with the latter in “picking ont the best time possible for robbery and plunder.” The Doctor nas been sen- tenced to three weeks’ imprisonment. Dr. Behrens. for puolishing the article, has been fined twenty-five thalers. SUICIDE BY TAKING POISON. Domestic Difficulty the Cause. On Tuesday evening, Mrs. Annie Scaniin, a young woman only twenty years of age, who lived on the top floor of premises No, 836 Pearl street, while ina depressed state of mind swallowed a | ena, of Paris green with suicida) intent and te from the effects thereof at five o’clock yester- day morning. Coroner Woltman was notified. Deceased, WhO was of & Nervous and excitable temperament, had been married but afew months, during which time dissensions are said to bave arisen between herself and husband, FIRE IN THIRD AVENUE, Sapposed Incendiarism. Afire broke out at @ quarter past two o'clock yes: terday morning in the two story frame building Nos. 1,00, 1,102 and 1,104 Third avenue. It originated in the rear of the cigar store occupied by Adolph Moanies at No. 1,104, The logs on the buildings is estimated at $3,000; insured. Mr. Moanles’ stock is Biased to the extent of $2,000; insured for $3,000 in the Lortilard. A loss of $3,000 was done the stock of Bridget Barry at No. 1,102; insured in the Reltef for $2,000. Ellen Ellingsworth, who oc- cupied No. 1,100as a hardware store, suffered a loss of $500 by water; insured for $1,600. Fire Marshal Sheldon, after examining the premises, arrived at the conclusion that the fire was the wor! of anincendiary. An investigation will be made to-day. INVESTIGATING A FIRE. A fire broke out ata quarter past two o'clock yesterday morning in tne two story frame baild- ings, Nos, 1,100, 1,102 and 1,104 Third avenue, owned by Ernest Conrad. The fire is supposed to La A sus. 1,104. The losses amount to about $7,000. | picion is entertained that the fire was the work of an incendiary. The Fire Marshal is making @n in- vestigation. ‘si —_—__—_—__— THE GERMAN SOCIETY, German Immigration—Its Decrease. ‘The directors of the German Emigrant Society held a meeting at their office yesterday, William Steinway presided, and reports were submittea showing that the German tmmigration at this port during the first five months of the year amounted to 19,228 persons—a falling off of 25,052 compared | with the corresponding period of last year, wheo 44,290 Germans arrived at Castle Garden. The Relief Committee oi tke society during the pres- ent month aided fifty-eight German immt- grants, at an expense of $117. The treasurer Teports @ balance of $6,928 57 in the treasury. The Cie) during the past month amounted to $2,225, wiitle the expenses amounted to $747 46. It Was announced that adonation of $200 In gold had been received from the King of Bavaria. TAB OITY TREASURY. ‘The City Comptrolier states that the following ad been set tree. ane asy mechanics and small-fisted farm- | ers” stoce out the conguerers oD & Lundred hatte receipts and disbursements took place jv Ns omlee yesterday :— Amount of disbursements $00,354 | Amanot of r@ceivis reo