Elusive and Protean
ECAUSE chimpanzees were too expensive, research into the common cold is being carried on with human cooperation at Harvard Hospital, Salisbury, England. According to the BBC a surprisingly large number of people have been found who are prepared to go there for a week or two and catch a cold for the sake of science, Dr, C. F. Andrewes, F.R.S., who is in charge of British research into the common cold, advised C. Gordon Glover, the writer of this particular programme ih the BBC series New Horizons, and the result is twenty-eight minutes. of entertaining speculation. The only cloud on the New Horizon is that although Dr. Andrewes discovered the influenza virus some time ago, influenza is still a house guest eve in the most scientific homes, Listeners t 2YA can get this latest progress report on the pursuit of the elusive sneeze at 9.30 a.m. on Sunday, February 26.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 556, 17 February 1950, Page 24
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153Elusive and Protean New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 556, 17 February 1950, Page 24
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