I believe it was Norman Fenton (I could be wrong, I read a lot) does a brilliant analogy where he shows a temperature graph with the temperature low in January, rising in May and then applying an intervention- turning a fan on in August - and deeming the intervention a success as the temperature lowers in September.
I don't think the paper given in the episode's details (D'Alessio et al 1984) is the same as the one mentioned by Tom on fluorescencing rhinoviruses from the 1960s.
Thank you for picking up my mistake. The D’Alessio et al paper is a summary of the Wisconsin transmission experiments, including the famous kissing amongst couples.
The "fluorescent experiment” was carried out in the Common Cold Unit near Salisbury and summarised by Sir Christopher Andrewes as follows at page 124 of this book The Common Cold:
“One experimenter rigged up on his nose an apparatus which permitted fluid to trickle out at about the same as would occur with a good cold. He used a handkerchief to blow his nose...The fluid contained a dye normally hardly visible but fluorescing brilliantly in ultra-violet rays. He spent some hours in the room with other people, playing cards, eating a meal and so on. At the end of the time, the lights were turned off and a U_V lamp revealed the horrible truth: his artificial nose secretion had got around everywhere...” The experiment did not involve any agent and was carried out sometime in the early 1950s.
I believe it was Norman Fenton (I could be wrong, I read a lot) does a brilliant analogy where he shows a temperature graph with the temperature low in January, rising in May and then applying an intervention- turning a fan on in August - and deeming the intervention a success as the temperature lowers in September.
I don't think the paper given in the episode's details (D'Alessio et al 1984) is the same as the one mentioned by Tom on fluorescencing rhinoviruses from the 1960s.
Thank you for picking up my mistake. The D’Alessio et al paper is a summary of the Wisconsin transmission experiments, including the famous kissing amongst couples.
The "fluorescent experiment” was carried out in the Common Cold Unit near Salisbury and summarised by Sir Christopher Andrewes as follows at page 124 of this book The Common Cold:
“One experimenter rigged up on his nose an apparatus which permitted fluid to trickle out at about the same as would occur with a good cold. He used a handkerchief to blow his nose...The fluid contained a dye normally hardly visible but fluorescing brilliantly in ultra-violet rays. He spent some hours in the room with other people, playing cards, eating a meal and so on. At the end of the time, the lights were turned off and a U_V lamp revealed the horrible truth: his artificial nose secretion had got around everywhere...” The experiment did not involve any agent and was carried out sometime in the early 1950s.
Best wishes, Tom