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Show Facts About Colds. The common theory that all colds are the result of exposure of some sort is a great mistake. Exposure is net the direct cause of the disease. Scientists tell us that colds are caused by a hostile hos-tile microbe, which gains a foothold , when our vitality is lowered by exposure, expos-ure, and that if we inure ourselves lo exposures we have an effective remedy against the microbe of cold, as well as many others. There are many evidences evi-dences to prove this theory. There are many places where it is impossible 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 perspira-tion that day 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 thaw-ing out. They returned to civilization none the worse in health, but sool contracted con-tracted severe colds upon reaching there. Then there is the remarkable instance of St. Kilda. that lonely, rocky island, which was visited by Dr. Johnson when he and Boswell were making their famous fam-ous tour of the Hebrides. There are about one hundred inhabitants on the island. The coasts are so precipitous that for eight months in the year it is practically inaccessible. Several vessels ves-sels from the mainland call there during dur-ing the summer. And, strange to say. whenever a ship 'reaches the island from the mainland, every inhabitant. even to the infant, is seized with colds. This fact has been known for more than two hundred years, and was of great interest to Dr. Johnson, who was sceptical concerning it. The question of this St. Kilda cold long puzzled men. who never dreamed that it was an infectious disease and that without the possibility of infee-tiun. infee-tiun. it is impossible to catch it. no matter what the exposure may be. That is to say. it is due to a microorganism, micro-organism, and without the presence of this micro-organism the disease cannot can-not be contracted. |