Homeopathy and healthcare

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.