A is for aphorisms: Feed a fever, starve a cold? Or could it be starve a fever, feed a cold?

Jane Smith

A is for aphorisms: Feed a fever, starve a cold? Or could it be starve a fever, feed a cold?

Jane Smith^*

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Faculty of Health Sciences & Medicine

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Abstract

The recommendations for management of fever have changed throughout the course of history, as has the very concept of fever. It has changed from something viewed as a diagnosis in its own right to a sign of something to be measured and as a trigger for a diagnostic trail to be made.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	77-78
Number of pages	2
Journal	Australian Family Physician
Volume	44
Issue number	1
Publication status	Published - 2015

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Smith, J. (2015). A is for aphorisms: Feed a fever, starve a cold? Or could it be starve a fever, feed a cold? Australian Family Physician, 44(1), 77-78. http://www.racgp.org.au/afp/2015/januaryfebruary/a-is-for-aphorisms/

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