Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site tekig5.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!tekig3!tekig5!tomm From: tomm@tekig5.UUCP (Tom Milligan) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: Cure My Cold, Please Message-ID: <294@tekig5.UUCP> Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 11:03:06 EST Article-I.D.: tekig5.294 Posted: Thu Oct 31 11:03:06 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 07:57:51 EST References: <31200022@uiucdcs> <417@mot.UUCP> <1022@oddjob.UUCP> Reply-To: tomm@tekig5lligan.UUCP (Tom Milligan) Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 15 Summary: A couple of years ago the magazine "Science 8[1-5]" had a brief report that a doctor in Israel had developed a machine that cured (yes!) the common cold. In essence, it produced ~180 degree steam that the person with a cold was supposed to breath. The theory is that (according to this article) cold virus' can only reproduce in an environment where the temperature is less than normal human body temperature. This is why they affect the mucus membranes in the respitory tract. In any case, breathing this hot steam at some interval relating to the "gestation" period for cold virus' is supposed to inhibit their reproductive cycle and eventually (ie. within 1 day) wipe them out. Whether this works or not, I don't know, but I would like to hear if anyone has heard any additional information on this, I would at least be curious to hear it. Tom Milligan