词汇 | feed a cold starve a fever |
词源 | feed a cold, starve a fever. The great Greek physician Hippocrates, called the father of medicine, is said to have in- vented this advice. People have in any case been following his words for centuries, although several doctors have recently claimed that there is no scientific truth in his advice. |
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