Show Stuffing a a. Cold N The m man n who originated the oft ed maxim Stuff a cold and starve a a. fever either either did did not understand what he was talking about or he has been widely misunderstood to the great inJury injury injury in- in Jury of multitudes who have acted upon the absurd maxim Presuming that the theauthor theauthor theauthor author of it was a physician who knew something of the nature of colds and the action of remedies he must have spoken and not Imperatively imperatively imperatively Impera impera- and then It would read thus If It you stuff a cold the consequence willbe will willbe willbe be that you y will be thrown into a fever as a result of the stuffing treatment of the cold and then you will vill have to starve the fever This is a true and sensible Interpretation of this commonly common common- ly Jy received maxim which has done as much harm as any of the thousand and andone andone andone one popular errors which prevail on medical subjects Without dwelling on the nature or causes of colds or on what physicians call the pathology of these disorders we will say that low or even starvation diet for a few days with the free drinkIng drinking drink drink- ing Dig of warm mildly stimulating teas is better for a cold than any drug or combination com corn of drugs London London Family Doc Doc- tor |