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 lightning celerity of the electric telegraph, all demonstrate the wondrous workings of the brain of man, and the perfection of his hand.