Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1894 — He Died of Sheep Rot. [ARTICLE]

He Died of Sheep Rot.

a death from a moot unusual pause was recorded la How York Cite lately. A couple of weeks ego Bernard B. Miller, a tailor, was admitted to BoUevue Hospital Buffering with what was supposed to be erysipelas. Finally ho died. An autopsy revealed that the unfortunate man had not died of erysipelas, but of cheep rot. A little before he was taken alok he had been oleaalag a woolen suit of olothes, evidently made from the wool of sheep affected by the rot. Hie hands aad teoe wore terribly swollen. The dootor who conducted the autopay Bays that Miller was literally eaten by the baolllL With a pteoe of glass he scraped hundreds of the deadly germs from the deed man's hands. The dlaeaae la moat deadly, but fortunately of not frequent itour. rence.