1912 Olympic Games Official Report Part 2

this had happened, he was taken in hand by a Swedish physician,Dr C. R. Torell, who happened to be on the spot. A few minuteslater, Dr G. Liljenroth, the physician on duty at the medical stationat Silfverdal, came to the place, followed in a short time by Dr K.A. Fries, the medical man who was in the motor-car driven by the leaderof the competition. The proper measures had at once been begun inorder to restore Lazaro to consciousness, but without any result, and thematter was reported to the Stadium by means of the telephone. Asthe steps which were taken to recall the sick man to his senses, stillseemed to be without result, he was placed in one of the motorcars at the disposal of the doctors and carried to the Royal SeraphimHospital, whither he was accompanied by Dr Fries. He arrivedat the hospital about 5,30 p. m. On his arrival there he was stillsenseless, had violent attacks of cramp and convulsions of the wholebody, and became delirious; his temperature was 4 1.2° Cent. (106°Fah.), and all the symptoms pointed to sunstroke. Dr Arnold Josefson,lecturer on internal medicine, who, during the summer, was temporarilychief physician at the clinical surgery of the hospital infirmary, went, assoon as the news of Lazaro’s illness reached him, to the hospital fromthe medical station at Stocksund where he had been on duty duringthe Marathon Race. As soon as he had examined the patient, Dr Josefsonsaw that the case was a very serious one and that it wouldprobably prove fatal. The treatment of the invalid was continuedwithout a moment’s intermission, and with the greatest attention, butit was impossible to save Lazaros’ life, and he died at 6 a. m., thefollowing day, July 15.The post-mortem examination was carried out by Dr Folke Henschen,experimenter pro tem., and the clinical diagnosis was fully confirmedby the examination.A Bohemian competitor who, it was stated, was found lying senselesson the road, was taken in a motor car to the medical station atStocksund. On his arrival there he was found to be suffering fromgiddiness; his pulse was slow, and he complained of an insufferableheadache. Continuous treatment with cold appliances gradually broughthim to his senses, but Dr Josefson thought it wisest to take himto the Royal Seraphim Hospital, which he left the following day,however, quite restored. This was, most certainly, another case ofsunstroke.Two other competitors in the Marathon race came to the medicalstation at Stocksund, complaining of a severe headache, both of thembeing among the youngest of the competitors. One of them, whowas led to the station by a boy-scout, suffered somewhat from giddinessas well as from headache. There is a possibility that both ofthese cases, too, were sunstroke.A couple of days after the Marathon race, the 7 doctors who hadbeen on duty at the Stadium competitions, sent in a document to theInternational Olympic Committee with reference to Lazaro’s death, statingthat, if it is thought that the Marathon race in its present formought to be retained on the programme of the Games in future Olym-840