Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1892 — He Died of Sheep Rot. [ARTICLE]

He Died of Sheep Rot.

A death from a most unusual oauee was recorded in New York City lately. A couple of weeks ago Bernard B. Miller, a tailor, was admitted to Bellevue Hospital suffering with what was suppose i to be erysipelas. Finally he died. An autopsy revealed that the unfortunate man had not died of erysipelas, but of sheep rot. A little before he was taken sick he had been cleaning a woolen suit of clothes, evidently made from the wool of sheep affected by the’ rot. His hands and face were terribly swollen. The doctor who conducted the autopsy says that Miller was literally ea en by the bacilli. With a piece of glass he scraped hundreds of the deadly germs from the dead man's hands. The disease te most deadly, but fortunately of not frequent occurrence.