The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-18

the twelve they are practically mac
Cessible Formerly they were visited
only once a year by ship from the
mainland. Now several call there dur
ing the summer, including excursion
steamers from Liverpool and Glasgow.
| The curious point is that whenever n
ship reaches the island all the inhabt-
ants, including the very infants at the
| breast. are seized with a cold This
| fact has been known for nearly 200
years and greatly interested Tr john
son when he and Boswell were making
| their famous tour of the l1ebrideS. He
| was very skpptical about il, saying
| that the evidence was not adequate to
| the improbablitv of the thing. But
! he praised the Rev Mr.. MacaulaN for
putting it in his book. declaring that
| it was courageous of him to tell II fact,
| however strange, if he himself believed
| it. He said that if a physician, rather
| disposed to be incredulous, should so to
| st. Kilda and report the fact, he would
begin to look about him. When told
that it was annually proved by Mac
Leod's steward, on whose arrival all
the inhabitants caught cold, he iocular-
| ly remarked, "Thc steward comes to
demand something of them. and 80
they fall a-coughinE."
LONG A PUZZI.E.
The problem Of this st. kilda cold
long puzzled learned men, who seem
never to have suspected the simple
| explanation of the mystery. one sOlu-
| tiOn suggested was that the steward
always brought whisky with him, and
that it was the intemperancc ana iol-
litY which took place ON the ucCa sion
which caused the epidemic. Another
explanation was that a ship could only
reach the island from the mainland
| when the wind was from the northeast.
| The wind, no; the strangers caused
the cold. This cold is still characters
istC of the island, and is called by the
Inhabitants the strangers COld.' Un
the arrival of the first steamer every
summer al the island folk fall victims;
afterward many of them escape The
attack lasts eight or ten days, and is
| often accompanied by bronchial ca
tauh. The inhabitants affirm that If
the ship comes from Liverpool or Clas-
gov the cold they catch is more severe
than if it comes from the Hebridcs.
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All lh'Se instances ana there ara
many such go to show that a cold is an
dnubt but only WHARF man norrons
only where civilized man exists Also
that in come favored spots rs IN st
Kilda, the disease. when it has been
introduced, rapidly becomes extinct
This is known to be the case on sailing
vessels during a long voyage, and il is
one of the reasons why such a voya 90
is often beneficial to patients suffering
from consumption. who are so sadly
liable. after any catarrhal attack +,
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