Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1902 — Infectious. [ARTICLE]

Infectious.

Nansen and ills companions, during the three years that they were in the Arctic regions, never caught a cold, yet they were exposed to cold, fatigue aud wet feet, aud generally wet to a degree which any one who lives In a warm home cannot realize. Their clothes were so saturated with perspiration that they froze by day into a solid mass of ice, and even cut into the flesh. At night when they get Into their sleeping bags, to use the correspondent’s words, ’the first hour was spent In thawing, and they lay shivering until their clothes became wet and soft and eventually comfortable and warm.” Yet hese men, exposed in this way, never rot cold, nor did their health suffer in my way from the exposore. Of course hey were all very strong men. They . ere able to withstand the cold In the vrctlc regions, but when they reached ivilization they all caught cold. Nauru's deduction from this Is, in his own ords, “there is, of course, no doubt hat cold is an infectious disease.”