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<blockquote data-quote="Dry Rot" data-source="post: 4496502" data-attributes="member: 4505"><p>I would never dismiss "Old Wives' tales" out of hand.</p><p></p><p>An old lady who died in her late 80s a few years ago used to maintain that canine distemper could be cured by passing a sewing needle through a dog's ear. She was full of nonsense but I remembered this. Then I learnt about the early experiments in immunisation. Apparently, the first experiments involved passing a needle through the ear of an infected dog and then doing the same to a healthy dog you wanted to immunise. Now, that makes sense!</p><p></p><p>Also, the tabus of various faiths are interesting. Pork quickly goes rancid in hot countries and pigs are (apparently) rather partial to human faeces, a habit that creates a pathway for the transmission of the pork tape worm to a human! Maybe muslims like to cover their women because the sun has a very harmful effect on the skin and they like their women to be free of wrinkles. The cow is important in India as an animal to work the land, to produce milk, and it's dung is a useful fuel....</p><p></p><p>A wise man will learn from anyone, even a fool.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dry Rot, post: 4496502, member: 4505"] I would never dismiss "Old Wives' tales" out of hand. An old lady who died in her late 80s a few years ago used to maintain that canine distemper could be cured by passing a sewing needle through a dog's ear. She was full of nonsense but I remembered this. Then I learnt about the early experiments in immunisation. Apparently, the first experiments involved passing a needle through the ear of an infected dog and then doing the same to a healthy dog you wanted to immunise. Now, that makes sense! Also, the tabus of various faiths are interesting. Pork quickly goes rancid in hot countries and pigs are (apparently) rather partial to human faeces, a habit that creates a pathway for the transmission of the pork tape worm to a human! Maybe muslims like to cover their women because the sun has a very harmful effect on the skin and they like their women to be free of wrinkles. The cow is important in India as an animal to work the land, to produce milk, and it's dung is a useful fuel.... A wise man will learn from anyone, even a fool. [/QUOTE]
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