AceFuzzLord,

I don’t know if anyone else has said it, but the belief that human illness and all that were caused by an imbalance of four bodily humors: black bile, yellow bile, blood, and phlegm. It’s an old belief where the earliest I found it being practiced was around 400 B.C.

neptune,

www.childrensmn.org/…/old-wives-tales/#:~:text=If…

Plus for any saying like “look before you leap” there’s a “the early bird gets the worm”

MonkderZweite, (edited )

Traveling faster than a horse is harmful.The body waa not made for that speed.

shinigamiookamiryuu,

The geocentric theory.

intensely_human,

Fat free food helps you keep from gaining weight.

It was a pretty straightforward theory, but it was totally wrong. And the sugar which took fat’s place is so much worse for keeping slim than fat is.

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