FACTS ABOUT COLDS.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2644, 28 January 1908, Page 7

FACTS ABOUT COLDS.

The common theory that all colds are the result of exposure of some sort is a great mistake. Exposure is not the direct cause of the disease. Scientists tell us that colds are caused by a hostile microbe, which gains a foothold when our vitality is lowered by exposure, and that if we inure ourselves to exposures we have an effective remedy against the microbe of cqld, as well as many others There are many evidences to prove this theory. There are many places where it is impossi'Jle to catch cold, because there is no cold to catch. We have not yet forgotten that Nansen and his men, during the three years they spent in the arctic regions, were immune from cold, though they were constantly enduring exposure of every kind. They passed day after day in clothes so saturated with perspiration that by day they froze into a solid mass, so that they cut into the flesh. And at night, in their sleeping bags, the first hour was spent in thawing out. They returned to civilisation none the wc*rse in health, but soon contracted severe colds on reaching there.