Sunday, September 14, 2008

Bitten by a Dog.

New York, 1895

Fred Purdy, a young lad of Roslyn, was bitten about the face Tuesday morning by a dog belonging to John Page. Dr. Leys was immediately summoned, and he found the wounds so bad that before cauterizing them he had to put the boy under the influence of chloroform.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, July 5, 1895, p. 1.

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