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From: oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious Oyster)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Re: Cure My Cold, Please
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Date: Thu, 14-Nov-85 10:49:47 EST
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In article <628@hlwpc.UUCP> rpm@hlwpc.UUCP (Dick Muldoon) writes:
>Tim Mikkelsen in <15100001@hpfclp.UUCP> writes:
>> I also seem to remember a medicated 'kleenex'.
>
>Eliot C. Dick (Univ of Minnesota? Wisconsin?) came up with an 
>iodine-treated tissue that was tested at McMurdo Station, Antarctica,

   Not a rumor, but fact!  Doctor Dick did the deed, just a block or two
away from where I sit now.  A friend that works in the same building as
Dr. Dick says it's been terrible, because of all the scummy street people
that hang around (Dr. Dick pays them to catch colds, then spend a week
isolated in a lab while doing his tests-- keep's 'em off the streets...)

>I don't know for sure, but I think some tissue company is working 
>on a commercial "Cold-Killer" product using the results.  (Least I

  I'll confirm that I, too, heard this rumor.