Docs warn over Roald Dahl’s fictional medicine: Nannas beware
UK paediatricians say the concoction in Dahl’s book, George’s Marvellous Medicine, is lethal and shouldn’t be used on real grannies
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Nannas around the world are in grave peril, if kids try to copy the concoction a Roald Dahl character whipped up for his grandma in the novel George’s Marvellous Medicine, researchers say.
In Dahl’s popular 1981 book, young George’s grandma grows to the size of a house after taking the lad’s homemade ‘medicine’ prepared from 34 household items.