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December 18, 1967. THE COMMON COLD AND DEPRESSION. Merl M. Jackel, M.D.
A review of the medical literature leads to the conclusion that physical or external factors do not provide a satisfactory explanation of the common cold. The influence of emotion on allergic reactions and on the nasopharynx has been shown in psychophysiological experiments, and a few analytic investigators, including Menninger, Saul, and Ruddick, have discussed the relationship between psychic phenomena and the common cold. For three years the author noted every instance of a common cold occurring in patients in analysis; the