Some Popular Superstitions

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 ...

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.

A Review of Some Popular Encryption Techniques

This paper focus on the different kinds of symmetric key encryption techniques those exist in present world for securing data communication. It also frames all the techniques related to variety of encryption like image encryption, information encryption, double encryption. It aims to explain the performance parameters that are used in encryption processes and analyzing on their security issues....

Infective endocarditis: some popular tenets debunked?

Infective endocarditis remains an uncommon disease thus any individual doctor's experience of it must of necessity be limited. Such patients are always "interesting" and invariably stay in hospital for weeks rather than days-this, I think, leads clinicians to assume the infection is more common than it really is. As a (clinical) microbiologist I have been in a unique position to follow all pati...