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Feed a cold; starve a fever

  1. Eating will help cure a cold; not eating will help cure a fever.



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Even the folk adage to “feed a cold, starve a fever” contains vestiges of that humoral sensibility.

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Maxims typically date back many years, but “feed a cold, starve a fever” may beat them all.

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"Feed a cold, starve a fever."

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"Feed a cold, starve a fever."

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