Notes and Events.
. » «• Colds just now are very prevalent, and so is sneezing, and to good old Conservative < it may be comforting to knuw that it 19 a very old com plaint. Most complaints, perhaps, are but they now and then get a new name. It has often been observed how some good-natured person will remark to the one who has sneezed or is sneezing "God bless you." This is meant well on his part but it ]is exceedingly curious to learn that j some euch equivalent expression ha* been used in the ages long gone past, 'it having been mentioned by * Homer, Aristottle, Apuleius, Pliny, and the Jewish Rabbi*, and has been observed in Koordistan, is Florida, in Otaheite and in the Tonga islands.
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Manawatu Herald, 22 March 1894, Page 3
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125Notes and Events. Manawatu Herald, 22 March 1894, Page 3
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