Even in the heart of the modern world, down in the deep streets of contemporary urban life, folk medicine is still strong. Have you noticed when you mention you have a cold, how everyone within listening distance starts to list off the various fool-proof remedies which are certain to cure you, or at the very least make you feel human again. Honey and lemon, brandy and hot baths, a lie down and a cup of tea or mashed poultice of toad and sparrow, it’s all there continuing to cure after several centuries of use and abuse.
Which is just as well because thinking with a head cold is like walking through tar – each thought struggles to break free for a moment and then is sucked back into the bog. The sediment in the head threatens at any moment to set like freshly poured concrete on a building site. Honey and lemon, brandy and hot baths, a lie down and a cup of tea.
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