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Green end first! Part 1 (Teacher: Michael)
Medicine may have made enormous strides forward in
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last few years with some fantastic advances in surgery and treatments of common ailments.
But despite some of these almost space-age changes, many old-fashioned myths and old wives' tales still persist.
I am constantly surprised by
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things people believe in. Here are some of
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craziest I've come across recently.
•If
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attack of shingles encircles
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body, then
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patient will die. Not true at all, I'm pleased to say.
• Acrobats are double-jointed. Not true either. Acrobats and contortionists don't have double joints - they often have stretched ligaments.
• Sitting on cold stone surfaces produces piles. I don't know where that one came from, but I can't think there is any tmth in it.
• Baldness is caused by wearing
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hat that is too tight. No truth in that one either.
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