Show science finds that aches achec in bones are not true index to the weather science has cast serious doubt on the old belief that persons can fore cast the weather by the aches in their bones the popular theory that pales pains are associated with certain kinds kind at weather is disputed by dr W P elhardt odthe 0 the department of physiology at the university of illinois dr elhardt collected data for a six month period and set it down on one long graph cliart chart chronologically arranged and across this oils long correlated chart of meteorological conditions dr elhardt plotted a record of pain the pain records finally transferred to the chart were kept by a veteran severely wounded in the world war who until he was shown the result of the experiment believed he could feel bad weather coming by a recurrence of pain tho the soldier had suffered a gunshot wound in tits his hand another in his shoulder ile he had bad lost a little and a ring finger of one hand and numerous other injuries ills pain after the war struck him at all tod frequent irregular intervals lie he blamed the weather from dr El hardts data however it was shown that changes in the weather were not the cause of the recurrence during six months ot of observation tho the mainstruck pain struck the veteran thirty nine times on a decrease of temperature pera ture but there were drops in temperature during that period so the correlation was only per cent furthermore the temperature ranged from rom 10 degrees to 98 degrees while the pain occurred only between the ranges ol of 23 and 92 degrees the correlation between pain and increase in humidity which oc cc burred times was only 22 4 per cent between pain and decrease in humidity only 7 per cent |