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J. F. KENNEDY. 
I like Dr. Harbaiigh for his sensible views, so fearlessly and 
and forcefnlly expressed. 
The farmers of this State, espeeially the hog raisers, are ap¬ 
pealing to yon to protect their swine against the ravages of that 
fearful disease, hog cholera, that often in a few days sweeps as 
with the “ besom of destruction ” not only their hope of added 
wealth, but often the only means of retaining their homes. 
There is one line of investigation and experimentation in 
connection with this particular disease that I wish to specially 
emphasize—I mean the great similarity, if not identity, of hog 
cholera and typhoid fever as it is manifested in the human sub¬ 
ject. 
Our honored State Veterinary Surgeon, Dr. Gibson, at a late 
meeting of the State Board of Health, read a most interesting 
report prepared by Dr W. T. Wright, of Vail, Crawford county, 
detailing an outbreak of typhoid fever in a farmer’s family near 
Vail. The father and four daughters, who lived at home, and 
another daughter who was visiting in the family, all took down 
with typhoid fever—only two of the family, the mother and a 
young son, escaping. The father died—all the others, after a 
lingering illness, recovered. The well that supplied the family, 
as well as the stock, with water was situated in the lowest por¬ 
tion of the hog lot. The father and five daughters who were 
attacked with the disease, used freely of this water. The mother 
and son who did not use it at all, escaped. Previous to this out¬ 
break of typhoid fever the hogs kept in this lot had had hog 
cholera in a severe and fatal form. Dr. Wright was led to ex¬ 
amine carefully the symptoms present in the hog cholera cases 
and was struck with the marked similarity between the symp¬ 
toms of these typhoid fever patients and the cases of hog cholera, 
and was driven to the conclusion that there was much kinship, 
if not identity, between the two diseases. 
It seems to me that it would be well for the bacteriologists 
of the State, physicians and veterinarians to thoroughly test this 
matter. The presence of typhoid bacillus or one akin to it 
should, if present, be readily detected in the excreta of the hog 
