Show I 11 I I I Sneezing ng Is s Expensive 1 MICHIGAN iv I A A MICHIGAN doctor catl called d on on an influenza I patient The patient patient sn sneezed and t the e doctor doctor contracted the disease and died He carried an accident insurance policy and his widow went to court to collect the value of the policy on the ground that the doctor had contracted the disease disease disease dis dis- ease through namely accident accident accident IJ namely mely the sneezing of the patient A J jury urY rendered a a verdict in favor of the widow Old legends legends' credit the sneeze with being a direct dired cause of death but this is is' the first time it has been given legal recognition as such It used to be and still is in some countries the custom to wish a man good luck when he he- he sneezes sneezes This custom grew out out of an n ancient superstition that it was bad luck to sneeze The basis basis' of the superstition was s a pestilence in which sneezing was a prominent symptom While the ancients believed sneezing was b bad d luck for the sneezer modern science tells us the victim of the bad luck is more likely to be bethe bethe bethe the person who st stands too clo close e to the sneeze and inhales the g germs germs thus issued If you must sneeze smother the sneeze with your chief A smothered sneeze is not as enjoyable to the sneezer as a wide open one but is much safer for everyone else in the vicinity |