Note 4 — WHY HYGIENIC CONGRESSES FAIL
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Sir Walter Scott, a connoisseur in dogs, writing about popular belief in 1832, remarks: ‘The powers of this talisman have of late been chiefly restricted to the cure of persons bitten by mad dogs, and as the disease in such cases frequently arises from imagination, there can be no reason to doubt that water which has been poured on the Lee penny furnishes a congenial cure.’