Home Remedies for Common Ailments

Dr Le Fanu is a general practitioner who writes for the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, and a number of magazines. A couple of articles he has written, one an appeal for a method for removing chewing gum on eyelashes and the other about the use of acyclovir to treat cold sores, led to the compilation of this book. The article about cold sores led a number of readers to write to him about ordinary household substances like alcohol and earwax which they found more effective than prescribed drugs. When he mentioned these in a later article he received...