Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1905 — TO FREEZE OUT DISEASE. [ARTICLE]

TO FREEZE OUT DISEASE.

Shipload of Consumptives Will Sum* - mer in the Far North. In search of restored health at whatever cost of money and effort, seventy consumptives have set sail from Halifax, Nova Scotia, in the hospital ship Havana. under the command of Dr. Frederick Solion, who has made two trips to the Arctic regions with Commander Peary, and was himself cured of this disease. Dr. Solion has great faith in the idea that before a sufferer has reached the advanced stages of this fell disease a trip far iuto the cold atmosphere of the polar region will result in a complete cure, as iu his own case. He expects the bacilli of tuberculosis will be frozen out by his patients remaining for some time iu those high latitudes. Dr. Solion has made a special study of his subject and hopes that as a result of the expedition philanthropists will bo encouraged to supply money with which to equip and send out several ships each summer for the benefit of those afflicted with consumption yet who are too poor to pay for treatment. Of course, such treatment comes rather high iu the way of expense, and in this instance only those who can pay are to be taken. The cost to the regular patients will be SO3O each for the trip. Several women are included in the list of those on this experimental voyage in search of earth’s greatest blessinghealth.

The hospital ship will cruise along the western shores of central Greenland, anchoring in various sheltered bays and inlets. Some of the latter extend inland many miles to where there is plenty of game, and in these digressions those who are able will have plenty of opportunity to get all the exercise needful^ 1 The entire summer —three month*— will be spent, in Greenland, above the Arctic Circle, the party returning before winter sets in. Each day will give

24 hours of sunshine in that high latitude, nnd the temperature will be found very equable—varying less than 10 degrees—during the period of their stay. As this gives practically six months of sunshine, one season iu that region will, in Dr. Sohon’s judgment, effect a cure.