OBIT: Henry WEBB, 1858, Columbia, Lancaster County, PA

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Hydrophobia - The Lancaster (Pa.) Express gives the following particulars of 
the death in that city by hydrophobia, of Henry Webb.
"About four or five weeks ago, Mr. Webb was in Mr. Sheirchbrand's grocery 
store, where there was a large dog who turned around, and bit him on the back 
of the right hand: the dog  .....symptoms of madness at that time, was killed 
on the following day.  The wound was superficial, and healing within a few 
days, nothing more was though until early on Saturday morning last, when Webb 
complained of a violent illness, great pain in his right side and arm.  Dr. 
John L. Atlee, Jr., was called in, and found him laboring under hydrophobia 
symptoms,  Webb could bear the sight of water, and the pouring of water from 
one vessel into another had no visible effect on him, nor had the wafting of 
cool air towards him; but an attempt to drink or the act of merely taking the 
vessel containing the liquid into his hand, caused a violent spasmodic 
contraction of the muscles, with an inability to swallow.  He was totally 
beyond the reach of medical help and died in great agony on Sunday morning at 6 
o'clock.  Mr. Webb was a married man and leaves one or two small children"

Tyrone Star April 6, 1858 p.3