Show the wedding ring finger the wedding ring was placed on the left hand as nearest the heart and on the fourth finger because that finger was supposed to have its own private wiro in the shape ot a delicate nerve to the heart ahat finger too was called the medicine finger and the belief was that by virtue of the little nerve it could detect a danger ous poison it simply inserted in the liquid from that belief the idea that wedding rings the rings worn on that finger had special curative qualities had its rise to this day wedding rings are rubbed over an obstinate sty on an eyhild |