WELL TO REMEMBER.
What is good for one is not always good for another. This is illustrated in a short tale told some time ago about a French medical student. While in London on a visit the student lodged in the house with a man very sick with a fever, who was continually besieged by his nurse to drink very nauseating liquids which were lukewarm. The sick man found this almost impossible to do, until one day he whispered to his nurse,
"Bring me a salt herring and I will drink as much as you please."
The woman indulged him in his request; he ate the herring, drank the liquids, underwent the required perspiration, and recovered.
The French student, thinking this very clever, inserted in his journal, "Salt herring cures an Englishman of fever."
On his return to France he prescribed the same remedy to his first patient with a fever. The patient died. On which he inserted in his journal: "N.B.—A salt herring cures an Englishman, but kills a Frenchman."