Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-21
NATURE OF COLDS
There is Every Reason to Believe
They Are Contagious.
MOI CAUSED MERELY BY EXPOSURE
For There Are Places Where They
Cannot Be Caught.
SOME CAS- Els IN POIN L

From tie London Spectator.
Many people may be surprised to hear
that even in this world there are places
where il Is impossible 10 catch a cold, sim
ply because there are no colds 10 catch.
There are facts. however, which seem TO
prove this For example hansen and his
men, during the three years which they
spent in the arctic regions, never caught
a cold. Yet they were exposed 10 cold. ia
tigue and wet to a degree which We at
home can hardly realize. Especially one re-
members how hansen and his comrade JO-
hansen. during their wonderful expedition
on foot over the polar ice. went on. day
after day. clad IN clothes which were so
saturated with Precipitation that they froze
by day into one solid mass of ice, and even
cut into the flesh; how every night, when
they tucked themselves up in their sleeping
bags. the first hour was spent in thawing;
how they lay shivering, their frozen socks
spread across their chests, until their
clothes gradually became wet aud soft and
eventually comfortable and warm. 1t was
Indeed a damp bed to sleep in. Yet they
never caught a cold; and, mark this, for it
Is very important. with the exception Of
Naus.u's brieT attack of lumbago, their
health Hid not suffer in any way from the
exposure. II may be said that they were
all +
were able To- withstand the cold. But what
was the fact" Directly they reached civil
iza1lru they all caught cold. Nansen's own
,II ,. Gorih- ~ COLI i an infections
3is,..-... w, had none during our tourney and
Ne all got it very badly. tool at the very
moment We reached Norway ANA inns
seems 20 Dc the uH'H eiSal ~ u
aIc.tC tNPiuiei9, I4Iv ; u ny - - .
III ~ ~ " 40 80 eu Ioi
.Lttt var III IIl% oD>ti I-''Il' ne q -
suffered rom 'oius- 1et lnts' tTI' ul ,..t
went II tlHir~ Sftat eApoSurt' IIIS dL?.!c
summer "aS eAcetu'uSlS u'tiIP- co'o hll9t-
taHeu s'tSt NI-4uS pre- aiming wei IeSL "cIF
Ihv RUE d 2Hfphic ApeiIelCt' Oh on
uccd~.'H NlN OF Us were "Npostd 10 d S''ie
III d ''at LOT Llftt CaH7 anu I!ISils?, Will
We were 'ii' HlSHti'f" u" me ShiIl wen i"'3i
anu Si,IaS i'Hi "H-i' W a ~ Gu "i I'lid,
'eihE ui4''Ie on account Oh tne IiCIeI'ieIlt
Wr.ith-r una "dht o., 'iiit oi otiiet NoVu ~
AShL Hre' We hah 20 ItHalh III our we
-lui4-S anu PIdcicdlE itt tHeih pI! IPGi
par b'"I,S' W nom oil Us 'o0h coo, IL i
.1ttNpt'HS IlaL " "lIiE III eIleG.S 80
.-l- w. SiisAt '"-nSeH Oh Ihe'ilil'5l SIii. eA
's ~ VI ~ ~ OiIiF - 49, I'.iS'
" ii'Il-l,N mature tlu.s"' men Not."i "
-"F-T 'HiI non" OF thtST men were ne
"I-t l'r men lTnE SoJouIH III tiloss Li'i "
-tH i'--'--, viii SUM a. IedsS 49, ny
h''.-T Tor H. 1tI LH'E also Win Only ~"
5N.r mons. SdiTret ION stNtIe 'oi"9 III
t-l.iE ihey reached clVlHZauon'
Felt No III Effects.
Very Interesting. too. is Sir Martin Con-
7-a,.- a-aorrrr Of his a,-neriences For Two
months when exDIofing Snftzber-eu he
and his fosr comrades were EXPOSED to
Considerable uriyatiCns. were almost con-
t-+utIy wet through and fre0uently had 10
tfa..n in their wet clothes. vet their health
never suffered in am, vyav from this E,It
~ rh- erd of thai rins they went down 10
ANDRES settlement on the coast where
moreover. there was almost constant inter-
.ourse with the mainland Within Two DAYS
ST treir arrival Conway and his companions
III Ja,-aI1Ued yfnI,.,t ,.nFJS Still more trjE-
ug wer, his experiences in the Himalavas
While among the mountains he and his
men. Notwithstanding great exposure never
taught q cold. They even visited native
village without doing 90 Rut once thav
came dovr1, To a village where there was \
small European settlement having com
nunication with the outside WorId-oue
white man had come ND three DAYS pre-
.iouslv There Conway and his men all
Ni-ho11t exreDtior tool, ma colds Which
7eyeIoped he thinks in ahout a connie of
iays The present writer has heard TOO
Dut has beer unable to verify the fact. that
he men at the observatory on top of Ben
Nevis often living in the midst of cIou1
and rain and snow never snffer from colds.
put that whenever they descend 10 inbab-
ted regions they invariably catch severe
mes.
The saint Eifda Cold.
Then there :. tta- ,.1a.sgioaI $50, - ~,
Itn there Is the classicai instance OF the
81 hiiua cola- Oh lhat rocky, lonely ISL
aIu' lying some iorty miles beyond the
- '"eIe are hish upon d
i1ii''i "a i'iiia Ditah'9 VINO keep lew sheep
AitD ''NS cuitiNate some forty acres and
o'i'sS' 'He esss' ieat heIs ana young OF the
o"a - LOW. heir coast is 50 pre-
'or eight months ont If The aI - ny 'l',.e
practically inaccessible. Formerly tbey
we're visited only once A wear nv q cbin
from the mainland. Now several caII tbara
during the summer including excursion
steamers from IiyerpooI and GIaSe0,,, Tba
curious point is that whenever n sbi,1
reaches the island an the inhabitants IN,
Guiding the very infants ~ tba ireaet ~.
seized with a cold This fact bas ~
known for nearly 2sJ wears and araatl,. i,,t
joresJed Or johnson when he a35 fsIsraj,
were making their famnus t0IIr ~ +ha III
rides He was very sk-nticaI about il -.
Ing that the evidence Was NOT adenuata 70
the HAprpbability of the thing Rut ba
praised the Rev. Mr. Mscaulay for Dutrinp
II IN ms pook. declaring that it was cour-
strange If Ne himself ha1iat-ei - eN ~
that if a physician. ratber fisnosad r. re
HereouiouS should go to 81. Kllda and re-
t',r' n ltct ne would begin TO look about
oil Fy Nj -, 60, s- ~ " a. "ntuaHy prov
al III 5-b.l.f+,r,.- -, Oii =" IioSt- diIlN ~