The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-07
INCUBATION OF THE cRI

| Right now, writes q dIehard, q have bad code In tho head which aSauiTea .S Mor wRiso Wiss consin Woods. Had been thero four days when | felt 1t coming on. The closest had come 10 conversational spray n that time was y!a II. rac,o -stening to football and other brondcasts. | My friend the dlehard is not at all sarcastic or patronixing about 1t. He merely reports tho case and suggests that symposium on the CIT | question would Do enlightening. 's | oh. I don't know. It might eniighten few of our younger readers, if any of them stil take any stock In tho quaint old superstition or | taking cold from exposure to cold ar or damp ness But have q vague feeling that ! an the only person of mature ago who has been , enlightened by tho symposiums wo have held about this question in the past: What ! nave learned Is that all these old foges who 1est know they catch cold from every draft, wetting of tho feet or whatnot, arc going to dc un. converted to any crazy notion like mine. I Suppose our diehard friends alleged ''coid" turned out to Do measles or polomyelitis.,,of course l don't know and neither d'd our dio. | hard friend know what 1t might turn out to DO but 1t might very well have been one or these iilnesses 1 ask, would our diohard friond have inscribed his Illness to exposure to cold or wet ting or draft or sudden change of weather or whatever 1t wa, just s the sd.in same7 ,o,,o, o,m, cIapsing from moment of infection to beginning of illness) Is from week to more than two weeks. So the diehard was not isolated froW human contact long enough to cover tho re- qurements of that eventualty.
 It Is Impossible to get any definite statement an Gnon SpH the physician or health authority of scientific Htnnding. Just as 1t is impossible to naneuyor ono of thee shrewd authorities into n. position | whero he will have to commit hlmBelf on Q definition Of tho condition % hs dss'gnatea % "tms s %Go perod is sSss that %"D Hno% o disease that has q shorter incubation period | than that.
 | uront mn ortV of aiioRed "eOIdR" attributed to drafts, wet foet, insufficient room heat. or wearing insufficient clothing. are excluded, for of cough or whatever tho victim of chronic | rhlntls, chronic bronchitis or other chronic respiratory trouble feels in such creumstaneeB, begins within few minutes If at all--sufielent | proof, to my mind, that tho trouble iB purely | mechanical variation in the circulation Fur | ther evidence of this Is the fact that the dis' valid gets out of tho draft, changes to dry Tcothos or otherwise returns to his usual en- | vironment.
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 First, Catch Your Rabbit
 Cotton tails, snOwshocs and other rabbits | around In our neck of tle woods. But we nrc Gctcrred from going after them by the fear of catching thls disease tularcmia we hear sc much about. (L. E.)
 Answer---Tuiaremia is m infectious disease that prevails among rabbits and other game but is rarely if ever found In tame rabbits oi domestic animals. The transmission Of tulare | mia to man is almost always through scratch cut or puncture Of the hand while skinning ol dressing the game. For this reason aresser' ticuIar about washing tho hands with soap anc hot water after every handling of game. Thor ough cooking killed the germ ana makes tn! meat safc in any case. A rabbit or other gafnt that falls 10 try to set out of harms way Y tho natural manner should Do regarded witi suspicion. Little white spots on or in the iivel are characteristic signs of tuiaremia.
 Good Riddancc
 From your articles I infer that person wlit las had his gail bladdcr removed may Iigpe ' | attain as good health as anybody eIsc' hop, | this is true, for both my gabi-bIhdder ana fnl aDDendix were removed How long sbguIs e person remain or . dict after his Enli-pianne is rcn0ycd3 (A. q. WI
 Answer- Certainly, end good rlnl.nce chyscian directs. Man without gali-baidde ordinarily eats the same things anybody els does. haF hf3N