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

Hog Cholera and Diptheria,

Hunting con Democrat. This morning a physician of this city, in speaking toa reporter about diptheria, 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 kndw 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 opposed to swabbing the throat with castics.