The Pathfinder
The shelter of a magnificent home on an isolated isle off Long Island, N.Y., with day and night guards to protect her from outside annoyances did not prevent Mrs. John P. Morgan, wife of the financier, from contacting sleeping sickness. She met few persons and kept in seclusion. The belief is that the winds carried the germ from offshore. It is traced to an old man ill with sleeping sickness in a small house near Glen Cove, N.Y. the disease is a cousin of the dread African sleeping sickness and the same one which caused the death recently of viscount Milner of England. However, a blood transfusion has placed Mrs. Morgan on the road to recovery.
Judge Charles Wood, judge of the U.S. Circuit court of appeals at Richmond, Va., recently died of the same disease. It visited him after a mild attack of influenza, supporting science’s claim that the two ailments are related.
From 7 page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, July 11, 1925
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