In the world of everyday healthcare, the question "What constitutes healthy living?" is often followed by another question, "What cures can make me healthy again?" We know, for example, that people died younger in the days before antibiotics; that's a given. But remember how our mothers and grandmothers healed their ailing family members, especially us kids, back when you didn't show up at the doctor's for every little complaint, back when there weren't sunny pharmaceutical commercials on TV? Recently I asked around.