Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 177, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1915 — Wore Out Two Doctors. [ARTICLE]

Wore Out Two Doctors.

Detroit—Dr. D. B. Downey, one of the city physicians, is back at his desk *fter being laid up for five months with diphtheria of the eye, contracted when a child he was treating for diphtheria coughed in his face. Doctor Downey was blind for two months and had to be led around, and for several weeks was laid up hi St Mary’s hospital. Diphtheria of the eye is a very rare affliction.