PAINFUL DEATH OF AN AUSTRIAN PHYSICIAN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue II, 3 January 1890, Page 3

PAINFUL DEATH OF AN AUSTRIAN PHYSICIAN.

A most distressing cage hhoa o (writes the Vienna correspondent of the Daily News) caused a wiug of 'he General Hospital to ne cl> sed for a tinif , and the nurses to be kept out of contact with any one not belongiug to tho hospital. In the month of August a man was brougnt to the hospital Buffering from the terrible disease called glanders, which he had taken from a hor so similarly afflicted. He soon di e d

ad a military surgeon, Dr Bowl asH 'ho hag spent many years examining •;+cil!ae of all kinds, undertook to ibjeet the dead body to n close • xamination. This was in itself a .osi; dangerous piee§ of work. By le aid of a microscope, he soon sue* •iedccl in finding the bacillus, whom . o reared, to watch the niauner of •;. r : s urovrth and,itß'vji,aliiy v An,,!ini- L "" ifcious *y o vu n o 'physician, Dr Uoff-.-ui, oxprofised his doubts as to '.-.■! her the bacillus roared artificially ■will iv it the power of infc.ciion. UK i «\Qwalslri gave him one of families and Dr Hoffmann soon saw that the poison •. still , hacl thft .jnp?(t' deadly poweiV ' All tho animals he injoeted with it died of -the horrible • ■ iiiplady. At tli'e beginning of October br Hoffman caught cold;, and • ' .felt acute 1 pains 1 in hisl side; 'TKe paiu increased and Dr Hoffmann .tried tq c.uihj it hy injecting tfiorphfru He did this with the syringe he had "sed.for injoc ting \h.k into the doomed animals. Although it had been disinfected in glowing h<jat some particle's of 'tlie poisen must ])ave still beejiin.jt, for.'Pr Hoj^maDii grew worse evety day, and last Monday his friends took him to the hosr pittil. His colleagues were 'horrified ! when they saw him— the whole body beiug covered \\y, teiu'iblo ulcers which when th'.y were examined, proved to be filled with the -glanders poison. The case touches the whole res* ffleOJCiiL profession tb' the -hHirtf r.fwb 1 *Jl¥ n i?}'sd_.,doators are bnsying 5 -iheiß- 1 sel^jjjsjjh >it^aoi4,»U^the gi-eat professors visit the xmtieGt'«Qyeralji;Uu»a a day. Un ! il the 22nd Dr Hoffmann was in groit pain, but ho then h-.'.ppily lost consciousness. lie I: new perfectly woll what wa's the matter with him, and gave a ..<jool account oj j\ji-aj;|'he ;linil; Hbtio, .And what the consequences wore likely to be. Later iv tho ?iight J)r Hoffnunm^ died without regaining consciousJJOSS, • . • . > ; ■. .'