The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-08-03

his column.
Hippocrates, the father of medi-
cine, said: "As the soil is to trees,
so is the stomach to animals. II
neurishes, it warns, it cools. AS it
fills it warns, as it empties it
cools." He followed this up by
recommending a diet for winter
and one for summer. The winter
diet was designed TO keep the body
warm and possibly the deduction
from this is that catching cold"
is a winter disease and to prevent
it anyone should have plenty of
nourishment.
Both Are Infections
But there is really no scientific
basis for what Hippocrates said,
nor for the aphorism about feed
ing a cold and starving a fever. A
cold and a fever are essentially
the same thing-that is, both are
infections. The idea of cold as OPP
posed to heat (fever) is a REIN
carnation of the old humoral
theory of disease which stated
that the body was made up of
heat, cold, wet and dry humours,
and that if they w.re in perfect
balance, the situation was health.
If one Of them got out of balance
or got the upper hand, there was
disease, and disease was of either
a hot, cold, wet or dry nature.
Not Supported By Fact
The saying has no wisdom and
is not supported by any scientific
facts. 1t probably arose as a say
ing of some very conscientious
grandmother - a saying which
seemed so apt that it passed from
mouth to mouth and has become
part of our ordinary speech. The
average man, says DR.. GALLAGHER,
has always been notorious for his
ability to think along the lines of
least resistance" But the physi-
clan has some tendency along that
line too. If anyone will show me a
physician who really knows how
to cure a cold, will withdraw my
prejudices against the saying
about stuffing a cold and starving
a fever.
Little Known About Colds
Doctors are often joked by their
friends when they show up with a
fever blister or stye. They are
supposed to know so much that
they can prevent all such things,
but the unhappy fact is that it is
the common little things that the
medical profession knows the
least about. In this category is
the common cold. We should know
about it, considering that one out
of every three people have from
one to three colds year, but we
don't.
Physicians are supposed to be
able TO conserve their health bet
ter than the average citizen, but
statistics show, as compiled by
DR.. Book, of the Department of
Hygiene of Harvard University,
that among the medical students,
~ per cent required hospitaliza-
ton on account of diseases about
which the faculty had just lee
tured to them.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
A. w. T.: What is the relation
between ulcer Of the stomach and
gallbladder trouble?
Answer: Gallbladder trouble
often gives symptoms which are
very much like ulcer Of the stom-
ach. There is, however, seldom
any real connection or relation
between ulcer Of the stomach and
gallbladder disease.
1t would seem as II that yolk was
the nub 10 be attended to.
My own dope, as a military
strategist, is to raid Japan until the
Sumari's finished Then let Italy
over-boil and disintegrate into
mere goo-easily edible by the
democratic nations.
I'd bet it would have a democrat
izing effect on Germany.
Jimmy Doolittle's campaign
strikes me as being the crux Of the
pending conflict.
It'll need to be chased UP, OF
course. Its initial penetration is
what I'm talking about.
The necessity for the obuteration
Of those Japs is my thesis.