Sir, – Ronnie Plant (aptly named ) feels that reaching the age of 85 using homeopathic medicines vindicates his therapy. Winston Churchill lived to 91 on a daily diet of several bottles of champagne and a box of cigars: would Mr Plant recommend such a lifestyle?
To paraphrase Erasmus, in science as in nature one swallow does not make a summer. – Yours, etc,
CHARLES McLAUGHLIN,
St Kevin’s Road,
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Portobello, Dublin 8.