The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-31
pASTE,JR.s COLD CHICKEN NO LONGEf
 SERVES FOR HASH

l Some of the trick medical or health au-
 thorties are caught on the wrohg eration s,as Ta they don't mind handing the pupiic a mess M oa
 hash in lieu of an honest argument. when they begin making hash of Pasteurs cola cnickeh' I 1t Is time to show them up. !. have before me three recent examples or this one is a popular article written by a gen tleman who purports to be a medical author. ity: another is a public bulletin composed by a former health commissioners; the third IS bit of news service copy by a bright young wo- man who handles the health publicity TOT charity organization. ,, All cite Pasteur's famous experiment With
 the hens and anthrax. and all imply that tnis experiment proved that exposure to cold may produce disease. Tho ex-health commissloner draws a conclusion that would astonish Pas
 teur, for he says the great scientist found that a chicken had marked immunity an anthrax
 but that this immunity could be overcome by
 standing the chicken in cold water
 Of course Pasteur scarcely knew what im-
 munity meant; they had not conceived that idea in his time. Pasteur never found that
 chickens had immunity of any kind This IS just one of those convenient scientific, oo- servations which modern self-styled "author-
 ities" draw from their own inner consciousness. Any intelligent person who cares to read the lire of Pasteur may see for himself that these trick authorities are either ignorant or | ishonest. l suspect that the medical gentle- aan first made the dishonest deduction from | missioner and the bright young woman pub | lcist borrowed the idea from him.
 What Pasteur really proved was that he .oud produce anthrax in hens by inoculating hem with the anthrax germ. Physicians and others did not believe this could be done. Pas cur inoculated hens with the anthrax germs, >ut the hens did not develop the disease. Fowls nave a higher natural body temperature than heep, cattle, or man. Pasteur conceived the dea that If he could bring tho body tempera-
 ture of the hen down to that of the sheep or
 nan, tho hen might prove as susceptible to anthrax are sheep and men. Fowl naturally never have anthrax. So he immersed a hen in
 cold water for hours until the hens tempera-
 ture was brought down to that of mammals.
 Then he was able to inoculate the hen with lnthrax.
 Some of the old timers, however insisted the mere chilling Of the hens had caused the disease which Fasteur produced by moculation with anthrax germs. So Pasteur immersed | number of hens in cold water till their temper ature was brought down to that a mammals (9S), then, instead of inoculating them he took them out of tho water dried them and let them warm up again to their natural body temperatures None of these hens became sick or died.
 Tho important difference between Pastcur's experiment and every day exposure to cold and wet such as you and and every live per- son experience is that ordinary exposure does
 not appreciably alter our natural body temper ature So don't let the trick medical or health
 authorities" mislead you about that. There is no scientific evidence that every day exposure 70 cold or wet lowers any immunity anyone may have against any known disease.