Many men, in other words, seem to be suffering a crisis of identity whose remedy is apparently to become cartoons.
One was Paul Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chairman, whose remedy for risky trading by too-big-to-fail banks is known as the Volcker Rule.
Ranged against them are two forces: paralysed liberalism, whose economic remedies no longer work; and rightwing xenophobia, whose economic remedies are incoherent but persuasive.
Graham was the younger brother of Elizabeth Arnold and Dr James Graham, whose unconventional remedies Macaulay had followed as a cure for her continual ill health.
There is the physical hangover, whose chief remedy is the following: "Immediately on waking, tell yourself how lucky you are to be feeling so bloody awful".
Luckily we had a "doctor's visit" from legendary farmer Annie Farrell whose prescription remedied the condition.
?Rediscoveries? of folk remedies such as this have inspired scientists worldwide to work on other remedies whose power to cure has been known to humans for millennia.
The centre-left's nostalgic attachment to redistributive taxation has faded, and all parties now increasingly problematise fairness as a matter of managing internal competition: the result is standard packages of policy remedies whose reach exceeds their grasp.
Culture in the current day encourages if not compels us to remain "up" - or, if we're uncomfortable at life's surface, at least to avail ourselves of a remedy whose purchase will put us at ease there.
"I think it's fair to think of cannabis as an herbal remedy, whose ingredients and their effects we've just beginning to understand," he said.
