Eureka Reporter | 1905-03-03 | Page 7 | Mankind Has Cold Blood

MANKIND HAS COLD BLOOD comparative low temperature to blame for most human ailments man is the coldest blooded animal there is and I 1 guess the people who profit by it most at this time of the year are the saloonkeepers the fur biers the drug stores and we doc tors remarked dr E J neville of albany who came here to attend a meeting of the new lork state medi cal association the doctor who was sitting in the hall of the victoria was led to make the above remark through the appearance of a man passing garbed in a heavy black bearskin overcoat man s low temperature the doc tor went on is for more than half his ailments lour normal temperature is 98 degrees fahren heit it is only when ou have a bad temperature that you get as warm as any of the lower animals that is to say when you are in a high fever with a temperature of iou are at the normal heat of the cat the dog the ox the rat and so on in the coolest of seas the porpoise is never cooler than degrees the bat the rab bit the guinea pig the hare and the elephant likewise are all cool at degrees the hen has the highest tempera ture of all the lower creatures and it is a good deal warmer too when a chicken its temperature then Js as high as but age and experience cool her blood by three degrees new york globe