----I love tradition and old wives tales, but you cant really think that touching pewter when lace making will help your arthritis!----
Don't forget the "placebo effect" (psychosomatic cures, mind over matter, the power of belief, etc.). It is well documented that belief in a treatment can cure some people. In war, sometimes doctors had to resort to saline solution when they ran out of morphine, and it worked on many people. That's why drug trials have to include a group of people taking sugar pills, and compare the cure rate of their drug to the cure rate of something useless (as well as the cure rate of other treatments). There is always a certain number of people who are cured because they believe that what they are taking/doing will cure them, not to mention the people who are cured because they were going to heal whether they had treatment or not. Robin P. Los Angeles, California, USA robinl...@socal.rr.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
