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** [[Rule of Funny|Tries to]], [[Failure Is the Only Option|anyway.]]
* The ''[[Chalet School]]'' books are pretty bad for this, probably because of [[Values Dissonance]] and girls being considered to be delicate, as well as the school's large [[Ill Girl]] contingent. Any exposure to chills, rain, drafts, mud or cold water is fairly certain to leave the victim in the grip of a life-threatening disease if they're not immediately put into a hot bath and then into bed with two hot water bottles. In one book, Jo spends three days unconscious and is bedridden for over a week after standing for literally a few minutes by an open door on a snowy day.
* This is artificially induced as part of the hero's alibi in [[Andre Norton]]'s ''[[Spy Fiction|At Swords' Points]]''. He's handed a handkerchief and told to inhale sharply three or four times. For the next several days, he'll then have all the symptoms of a bad head cold, which will help explain why he wasn't out and about and didn't know the police wanted to ask him questions.
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