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Show i The Wedding Ring Finger. The wedding ring was placed on tha left hand, as nearest tho heart, and on tho fourth linger because that finger was supposed to havo Us own "prlVnto wire" (lu tho shape of a dollcate ncrvo) to the heart. That finger, too, w,us called tho mediclno finger, and the bollof was that by virtue of tha llttlo uorvo It could dotcct a dangerous danger-ous poison If simply Inserted in tha liquid. From that bollof tho Idea thnt wedding rings tho rings worn on that flngor had special curative qualities 'had its rlBe. To this day M'odding rings arc rubbed over an obstinate sty on an oyolld. |