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Under the electron microscope, the cold-causing agent appeared to be "characteristic particles ... of the same general size as viruses of the influenza type, but . . . readily distinguishable from them." The two physicians named the "germ" .V14A because it came from the first nasal washing of the 14th volunteer...
...still a mystery. The latest attempt to penetrate the Kleenex curtain ended, as usual, in a sneeze. For 18 months of experiment, volunteer human guinea pigs had sniffled and hawked at Harvard Hospital near Salisbury, England (TIME, Feb. 3). For the greater glory of medicine, they had snuffed up nasal washings containing other people's cold viruses, submitted themselves to ten days of scientific observation...
Vapor Blends. Human beings are harder to test. Their smelling apparatus is deeply buried in the upper nasal passages, where it cannot be blocked off from the vapors by heat-transparent barriers. Beck & Miles hope to lick this problem somehow when they get an infra-red spectrometer for studying the wavelength of fragrances...
Preventives such as nasal inhalators don't do as much good as people think, either, according to Dr. Bock. Plenty of rest is the best cure, he commented...
...sing. Rudy's idea of up-to-date stuff was stale master-of-ceremonies patter and a try at ventriloquism. His routine was as wooden as his dummies (Ezry, Sally Ann and Linoleum). Only when he sang The Stein Song and As Time Goes By in his old nasal way did the crowd stop sitting on its hands...