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Captions provided by CCTubes – Captioning the Internet! Old adages can be pretty hit or miss—especially when it comes to medical advice—but it turns out there may actually be some truth to the saying, “feed a cold, starve a fever.”
Hosted by: Stefan Chin
Head to https://scishowfinds.com/ for hand selected artifacts of the universe!
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Sources:
https://archive.org/stream/hippocrates04hippuoft/hippocrates04hippuoft_djvu.txt
https://books.google.com/books?id=WGICAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA180&dq=%22feed+a+cold,+starve+a+fever%22&hl=en#v=onepage&q=%22feed%20a%20cold%2C%20starve%20a%20fever%22&f=false
https://www.jstor.org/stable/44440725?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
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https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/0-306-48643-1_13
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0163445303002068
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347209004631
https://cmr.asm.org/content/26/1/135.full
https://theconversation.com/feed-a-virus-but-starve-bacteria-when-youre-sick-it-may-really-matter-65784
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2266987/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19567383
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https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(16)30972-2?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867416309722%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
https://cvi.asm.org/content/9/1/182
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK10762/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK10752/
