A MEDICAL IMBROGLIO.

Evening Star, Issue 3412, 28 January 1874, Page 3

A MEDICAL IMBROGLIO.

- (Qu u the 29th ultimo, a little .girl about ■ ? e X en ye.ars old, named Matilda llean, reside Mr C 6( farpa, pn the Maffra, xoad, W* (, I . c^ or^a ).» was bitten; by and after being treated Shire’s anMote, and tmnistered to her by her patents, was brought to Sale and taken to Dr 'Hedley. Thi d.WtWfggye her. brandy and. ammonia; both ;?.* having watched 'ber. fpr apyeral.’ hours, : '^r^. c h B bg: 'bad, co naidera bly ; re p oyored*. cUs r sired "that she in order that he might not lose sight of fieri ' a o9qrdingiy, takeniby her parents tq Albion Hotel, , and was there attended to - fluctuated in a .remarkable manner, and finally congestion of the ’ lungs set in, andj notwithstanding tfiat amEqqnia-was injected; the child died a little.before noon on the foU the Degembef- Tfie jnedioa) men, Drs Hedley and Kees, gave in a joint -\ob. the- death >as : . haying resultea from.the .effects-qf, “ shake-bj.tg fqr (twenty : bqurs, and .conge&tiqn p£ ; the lungs for three hours, ’ and upon this the deceased-child wai 7fgHl,PJ94.^g;hP r -f a^s r, S roßi,4oooe prpjgous to burial. Dr Arbucklc, the oprpqer,' ordere4 be. held, ,aqd com*oxaminatipn to DjReid, of Sale. An inquest.was.accordingly on the -,afternoon of the 31st ult. Drs Hedley, and Rees weri summoned, ,tp a,Ufiodi / aud M c was to watch, .the; proceedings on ibehalf »?*■ . fle4 le y-«'i The proceedings at the ini quest were of ah unusual character. Both fc he,medicalmen whq hadattendedtbe ,case rei 9 n grounds to ,-be sworn] dven though reminded fey the.cprqmr thaf tp. cpmmit them, v Quest tions were put to the coroner himself as th f(J}WcJ r^BW’.^0 F rfbolding- the: inquest, and some strong language passed/'Dq, Hedley a r: 9® tp. say ( told a-fM?*;,. r; not qommit wbougpJ&r Hedley himself appears to hj ®^P e 9ped; that,, he, woui(i ; .. D( . givqn his; he. was- askeq by Mr Robinson whether he seen 4 cato of jgnakerhitej.-hiili the coroner told th 4 .witness.he need not answer.that question. j ur y , w-«a simply that the deceased died ffom the effects' of bite. Dr Hedley then added that the ca.se tbe,: fapta that- tbi iß’i'PW® P*iHie eyes j?erje.heypr ; dilate4 dr ini ?bfi 9gfid-retailed her .consciousness more dr itst;,.;Had %‘m been lor and considerable exhibif tion of branflyVit watpessibie the case might have had a different termination, but it was very difficult to say ihoof .far the .brandy had complicated tfie symptoms. It waa,,ho,weverl an undoubted case of death from snake bite as the priihary cause, and was a very curious aud-instructive' one,-* as" showing‘-that' a perl son after presenting all the symptoms for some hows; flight recover,; relapse, and die] The -parents-of Hie- child entirely -exonerate -Iffie;medical!meh.frbiii all blatoe oni tbaAcdH of neglect, and regret that an inquest was 1 iiJDtr iAxhuckle statei that his reason for holding the inquest was " to lot the public'know lwhafc treatment th| deceased child had, received’ at the handi °a gentlemen attending hetj ' sv as t6 let 'the pliblic <be aware°wl4kt 'JfiSth they (the medical gentlemen) had in Smrli’s antidbtfeftl ik lo a ■•< : ;u-M |