Despite her persistence, her parenting via fearmongering was one of the reasons turmeric didn't originally gain
much traction in our household; was it really turmeric milk that prevented me from getting the flu for over a decade, or a
hypochondriac's adherence to an annual flu shot schedule?
Samuel Richardson, the 18th - century writer who is widely regarded as one of the founders of the modern novel, complained so
much about ill health that his doctor regarded him as a
hypochondriac.