Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1899 — Influenza Cause I by Ozone. [ARTICLE]

Influenza Cause I by Ozone.

On one occasion the present‘writer walked to the edge of Lake Michigan when a strong.wind was blowing right from the lake. The bodily condition was as near perfect as could be, and yet in less than five minutes there was every evidence of having caught an extremely hard cold. The severe influenza continued until, on walking away, in less than 500 feet, it disappeared as if by magic. It is very certain that the temperature had nothing to do with this, nor the wind, but the influenza was directly due to the abundant ozone In the air. By Inquiry it was learned that hundreds of residents who had lived upon the immediate edge of the lake had been obliged to move back three or four miles in order to relieve themselves from such experiences. Physicians readily admit that It is not always possible to say why one “catches” cold; it certainly cannot always be because of undue exposure or change In temperature, but probably also to changes In the electric condition of the air. Facts of this kind should lead to the extremest caution in studying any supposed relation between the weathel and health.—Popular Science.