Margery Blackie, physician to Queen Elisabth II wrote extensively on homoeopathy during her long life. Here in one volume is the teaching drawn from her career. She discusses philosophy, constitutional treatment, many different remedy types according to individual or group analysis e.g. the natrums, a symptomatic treatment of disease, differentiating between remedies likely to be useful according to the expression of the condition and finally, a compact Materia Medica summarising 111 major remedies, together with a repertory and remedy index. An absorbing and very entertaining read by this grand old lady of homoeopathy.