Show Queer Su regarding the pre pre- prevention prevention and cure care of disease have persisted from the time ial jul many of them being still pre pre- prevalent prevalent pre prevalent valent in the more backward se sections sec sections of the country A few were called d to mind by a recent writer in noting the death of an aged Kentuckian who continued to wear earrings to the last in the belief belie that they were good for his eye eye- eyesight eyesight eye eyesight sight Another time old-time notion was that th wearing a mustache was beneficial to weak eyes just as it w ws I thought that carrying a n buckeye or orI ora ora ora a potato in th the po pocket et would pre pre- prevent prevent pre prevent I vent or cure rheumatism One doesn't have to be so 80 IVery old to remember r when children were caused to wear a little bag of asafetida strung around the neck as a protection against catching diseases and when in inmany inmany inmany many homes bunches of various dried herbs were hung about for forthe forthe forthe the same purpose Some believed that keeping a goat around the was house was a prime health measure The writer remembers being warned when a boy not to wade in water when afflicted with hives lest they strike to his heart and kill him He waded nevertheless and and lives to tell the tale II L These superstitions like the be- be be I I I I lief that a horsehair placed in a arain arain rain barrell would turn into a aI snake are gradually dying out out- outI out but many presumably intelligent persons to this day will re refuse use to take the thir third light from a match or under a ladder for fear of dire consequences |