Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1903 — Blood Poisoning and Erysipelas. [ARTICLE]

Blood Poisoning and Erysipelas.

Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Baedeker, well known and elderly residents of Barkley Tp., are both very seriously sick with erysipelas and blood poisoning. Their lives have been dispairecL of, but now both, are somewhat improved, and strong hopes are entertained that they will recover. During carnival week here Mr. Snedeker gave himself a slight scratch on the back of bis hand, while letting down a buggy top. Erysipelas developed and then blood-poisoning Mrs. Snedeker caught the contagion from nursing Mr. Snedeker. .