Folk Medicine By Dr. Jarvis New,Paperback. A New England Almanac of Natural Health Care from a noted Vermont Country Doctor.A Vermont Doctor's guide to good health, weight loss, and allergy treatment using apple cider vinegar, honey, kelp and Lugol's Solution. Information on what grains to eat and cook with and those to stay away from. Learn about "acid" and "base" and how it indicates one's state of health. Understand how a healthy thyroid gland maintains health and wards off disease.