Stress and Colds

Re “Stress Found to Be Prime Suspect in Colds Mystery,” front page, Aug. 29:

Apparently in the 1940s, Frank Loesser anticipated modern science’s recent findings of a connection between stress, frustration and the common cold when, in “Guys and Dolls,” Adelaide lamented:

“It sez here in this book . . . the average unmarried female . . . due to some long frustration may react with . . . symptoms . . . affecting the upper respiratory tract! A poison kn develop a cold!”

PATRICIA G. RUBIN, Los Angeles