Silicon Superstitions

Medical Superstitions in Ireland

WHEN I was a small child I had an attack of whooping-cough, for which ailment I received whatever medical treatment was then in vogue. In addition to this, however, I was taken to the gasworks. The fumes of the gas were no more efficacious than the more orthodox remedies, and as my whooping was apparently distressing to listen to, I was next taken to a large brewery and encouraged to hang over ...

Medieval marriage and superstitions.

Contemporary Medical Superstitions

and relief in time of sickness?of their castes, their tenets, and their practices, and any one so disposed might glean from the Indian medical periodicals of the last half century materials for a very instructive essay on the subject. We hear, on the one hand, of a physician caste, learned in the traditions of a past era, holding as an heir-loom an empirical knowledge of remedies, which we shou...

Dr. Mayo on Popular Superstitions

The present era is distinguished for the development both of physical and psychical wonders. In mechanical and other arts, what miracles have been wrought by the ingenuity and scientific experiments of the engineer and the practical chemist; the tunnelling of iron-stone rocks; the draining of primaeval bogs and mosses; the suspension, as if by magic, of gigantic tubes over the wide waters; the ...

Superstitions Associated with Plants in India

In this article, superstitions prevailing in India. attached to medicinal plants have been compiled. The author opines that there must be some rationale behind each of these superstitious practices which merits painstaking study to understand thm in the proper perspective.