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Old school remedies can still "work"

The old school generation might recall the days when parents treated minor illnesses using simple, out-of-the-world techniques.

Back then, children would be bathed using certain brands of soda to cure skin rashes, while those suffering coughs were made to drink raw egg yolks.

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