Cold Water for Cold.
Drinking cold water when one has a cold coming on is one of the best remedies, because it stimulates the system and helps to wash out the poisons formed in the body. Living on fruit for two or three days and drinking hot or cold water freely, with milk for nourishment, will often cure an ordinary cold if taken in time. The old proverb, "stuff a cold and starve a fever," is a contradictory one, for a cold is a fever. People suffering from a cold and continuing to eat heartily of beefsteak, mutton chops, roast pork, and similar foods are simply adding fuel to the flames, as surely as one would pour oil on a fire. Such heating food stimulates the morbid p*ocesses at work in the body, and, far from curing the disease, makes it worse.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2809, 15 January 1908, Page 76
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142Cold Water for Cold. Otago Witness, Issue 2809, 15 January 1908, Page 76
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