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A short History of the Common Cold:

As early as ancient Egypt the humans were aware of colds and there effects they had hieroglyphs for cough and for cold as in common cold. The Greeks gave a description of the disease in the 5th century BC. The common cold was also known in the ancient American by the Aztec and Maya civilizations. A mixture of chili pepper, honey, and tobacco was one common Aztec treatment for colds.John Wesley in the 18th century wrote a book about curing diseases which stated the rummer that being cold causes the common cold. The work was widely reprinted in the 19th century. Another book by William Buchan in the 18th century also gave wet feet and clothes as the cause of the common cold.The idea of microscopic viruses causing disease arose in the second half of the 19th century. People thought that bacteria were suspected to be the cause of the common cold, and vaccines were produced based on this theory; these were still prescribed until the 1950s. In Britain, the Common Cold Unit was set up by the civilian Medical Research Council in 1946. The unit worked with volunteers who were infected with various viruses. The rhinoviruses were discovered there. In the late 1950s, it was shown how to grow one of these cold viruses in tissue culture (it would not grow in fertilized chicken eggs, the method used for many other viruses). In the 1970s, it was also shown that treatment with interferon during the incubation phase of rhinovirus infection protects somewhat against the disease, but no practical treatment could be developed. The unit was closed in 1989, just two years after their showing benefit of zinc gluconate lozenges in the prophylaxis and treatment of rhinovirus colds.

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