11 MARCH 1955, Page 14

Country Life

By IAN NIALL BITING about old-fashioned cures, a doctor who lives in Yorkshire remarks : 'You may be a little interested to know that some ten years ago Leeds University Dental Hospital found that eating herrings checked hmmorrhage. They advocated kipper sandwiches. I think they contain Vitamin K. Wm. Withering learnt the virtue of the foxglove from a "wise woman" who cured patients when he had failed. The people here brew strawberry-leaf tea to pro- cure easy childbirth. I no longer scoff, as I did twenty years ago, at traditional cures. Nor do 1 attribute them to faith.'