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Show IlrMtarla Aiuoaa I l.oooa. In Tito American Praotltloner and News Dr. P. T. Wheeler states tlutt while hi A nesting of wild tlgcona ho found many sick with a peotido membranous mem-branous sore throat Ho dissected wmo of them with his nockotknlfv, which l.o was obliged to throw nway on account ac-count of Its otTcntho odor. Titer were millions of pigeons In tho netting, and they were bunted And eaton by the Inhabitants, In-habitants, among whom diphtheria Lroko out, fatal to many of the clul-drcn. clul-drcn. Set oral years pnitiotuly there was a simitar nesting ot pigeons near by, and fully half ot the children had dlphthorla. |