YOU might squirm at Nicola Lillie’s new book of family cures, but many of Mother’s old recipes can be surprisingly more effective than modern over-the-counter remedies.
So, it might be worth keeping a bottle or two of Malmsey of Canary sack handy just in case that troublesome bubonic plague raises its head again.
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