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Aug. 05, 1960 - SOLDIER GUINEA - PIGS VISIT THE HAMPSTEAD SWEAT BOX Sixty soldiers are acting as volunteer guinea pigs in the Army Medical Tests - to find out whether a man's efficiency drops when he is posted from a cold climate to a hot one. Many of these tests are being carried out at the Medical Research Council's Climatic Chamber. The Army calls it the Hampstead HOT BOX'. In it the men - coated in perspiration set up on the floor again and again. They keep this up for 30 minute sessions with thirty minutes rest between..They are exhausted at the end of a four hour session - for the box temperature is 104 deg.F. with a relative humidity of 70 p.c.The effect of the exercises on the men are checked by medical experts continually.. KEYSTONE PHOTO SHOWS: Some of the guines pigs at their step-up-step-down exercises-in the Hot Box

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Calls Checked Climate Climatic Coated Continually Drops Effect Efficiency Exercises Exhausted Experts Guinea Guines Hampstead Humidity Minute Minutes Perspiration Pigs Posted Relative Sessions Sixty Sweat Temperature Tests Thirty Volunteer Whether

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