The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-05
A POSSIBLE CLUE TO THE GREAT
 COLD MYSTERY

Common cold virus baffles science in search
 for vaccine
 Baltimore, Nov 6-The common cold re-
 search of more than two years by corps of
 specialists at the Johns Hopkins medical
 virus so small that it defes the most powerful
 microscope.
 If the virus could be made to grow in lab-
 oratory tube the hope of developing vaccine
 would be nearer.
 The virus is estimated to cause $2oo, ,00O, ,oOO
 loss a year to American workers alone.
 A colleague who sends me the clipping argues says so. He adds that he comes from Russia and the Russian medical institute says "colds' hap pen, too.
 And yet no one officially connected or claim ing connection with Johns Hopkins has yet offered definition of the common cold. found is that filtrable virus from man anil mal with some kind of snuffles or similar con- dition will produce a similar condition when in- oculated into the nasal passages of other men or animals. This has been observed time and time again. Perhaps Johns Hopkins needed the pub- licity just .4
 I here opine it is going to be about a thousand years before anyone will discover the cause or take another 50 years before the last of the old timers retires from public health education and they could catch cold from exposure to cold and wet
 These professional research people somehow let the public prints announce the discovery of the cause of cold every year or two. do they not It makes mighty good publicity for the insttu- ton itself and for the research workers who hold positions in the various expeditions launched to find and exterminate the common cold" The big business men who finance these expeditions expect break, too. So may confidently an ticipate such news at least biennially as long the last old timer survives
 Here I might say Tt is estimated that 1t will be 50 years before the last old timer retires."
 That's the Grte nG style of thH Se wr sive mode-nobody responsible for anything you know. That's as near as they dare come to a definition of "The common cold" They dismiss such carping quibbles this I make, by saying the ailment is "well known to everybody and so idiot knows all about it. Only of our biz business interests seem to think we need more they endow the "coid" hunting expeditions. Nobody has ever proved scientifically, by prop eerly controlled experiment on man or animals that exposure to cold wet has anything to dc with respiratory or other disease.
 Certainly these old timers have tried theii hardest to show this by scientific experiment They have failed to get any convincing results That. and ordinary empirical observation, is
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Oh, Oh, Silly lilly Is Married Now positive punishment for married folk who dclb cratcly avoid having children for few years. ] can't conceive what the punishment can be- Wt have been married five years and we plan to put off having our family for a few more years. when we will have trees and & grass sand and space fol Answer-You can't conceive-thats just it. Ir many casss when such couple finally decide ts When you get older you will understand that Ii is the part of wisdom to have your children wher you re young ana nt. frees ana grass ana sane piles and play room are fine-but better make sure first of having the kids to enjoy all those beautiful things with you. Your reason for post poning the rearing of family is about the sil Hest I've heard yet.
 InfantIIc Paralysis Not Communicable Is there any harm in sleeping with a pcrsoI who has infantlc paralysis? Miss A. Wo Answer.-The condition of paralysis is no communicable It is only in the stage of onse and feverishness (the first two weeks of illness that poliomyletitis may be infectious. So there il no risk involved in living with caring for one who has the paralysis paresis of muscle groups which so often follows acute poomeyi tis. In some cases no paralysis develops after volved muscle groups is slight evanescen as to escape notice. Thus probably not a few cases of acute poliomyelits are not diagnosed a all, but pass as "cold" similar vague in disposition.
 Will a boy who has had cOncussiOn of tn, brain twice in childhood go insane later in life The cOncusson was caused by q blow th' head both times. He is now 23 years old ant seems perfectly normal. (Mrs P. J. FL Answer-Such a boy, I should say. has jus as good a chance of going insane as any of us Concussion is merely shock from an injury of tho than is shock from injury of the foot. Do not take the trumped mp court cases too seriously in Yankeeland if a pampered son is caught a crime and enough dough is forthcoming, you cal always dig up a history of blow or two on thu head in infancy or childhood, which any comic strip educated jury will accept full extenua ton, though in medical experience we never car recognize insanity intellectual impairmen from such cause.