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The Effect of Cold Acclimatization upon Resistance to Local Cold Injury

JUN-ICHI SHIKATA, M.D.; HARRIS B SHUMACKER, Jr., M.D.; FRANKLIN D. NASH, M.D.

AMA Arch Surg. 1960;81(5):817-823.

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It appears clear that by some process of "acclimatization," "accustomization," or "cultivation," humans can better withstand exposure to cold than would otherwise be possible.* There can also be no doubt that the same process permits persons to work manually in extreme cold with greater dexterity and work efficiency than would otherwise be possible.² As one observes such persons working under these circumstances, one, in addition, gains the impression that they can handle with their bare hands extremely cold objects without evidence of the local cold injury that might be expected to result in nonacclimatized subjects. Animal experiments, such as those of Blair et al.,³ and of Sellers and his colleagues⁴ have demonstrated that cold-acclimatized animals can be subjected to low environmental temperatures with better chance of survival and avoidance of cold injury than controls. The present study was undertaken to learn whether cold-acclimatization would have any effect . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Indianapolis

From the Department of Surgery, Indiana University Medical Center, Indianapolis.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication May 10, 1960.

Aided by grants from the United States Public Health Service, the James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association, and by a contract between the Office of Naval Research, United States Navy, and Indiana University.

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