Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1894 — Hog Cholera and Diphtheria. [ARTICLE]

Hog Cholera and Diphtheria.

Huntington Democrat. This morning a physician of this city, in speaking to a reporter about diphtheria, said-that-he had noticed for years that when hog cholera was prevalent, as it now is, over the country, that epidemics, such as diphtheria, always follow. He said that he did not know whether other doctors had paid any special attention to it or not, but he said for years he has not known it to fail and he has come to the conclusion that eating pork is largely responsible for it. He says he shall correspond with several doctors in Chicago and get their views on the subject. In the meantime he regards it as a constitutional disease and is opposed to swabbing the throat with caustics.