eleven o'clock
The pain soon passed , but returned in three hours and became general , finally settling in the abdomen and producing violent cramps . At one o'clock the man had a spasmodic attack . Two hours later he had so far recovered as to be able to go back to work , for an hour . Then the spasms took him again ; he sank into coma , and died between ten and eleven o'clock that evening , about fourteen hours after the bite . At no time were there local symptoms or swelling , other than the slight eruption , but the neck , left arm , and breast are reported as having assumed a stonelike hardness . The same farmer had seen , three years previous , a negro who had been bitten upon the ankle by a `` red-spot '' and who suffered from diminishingly severe spasmodic attacks for three weeks . The white pimples appeared in this case also .