Rub salt in the wound.

He assumed that the electrical manifestations obtained by rubbing glass were due to the production of an excess of the electric fluid in that substance and that the manifestations produced by rubbing wax were due to a deficit of the fluid.

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But the bug in our case was in touch sensitive displays we wanted to be able to draw you know, rub your finger across the screen to input continuous points and there was just too much friction created between your finger and the glass if glass was the substrate, which it usually is.

This video from Mexico, bases itself on UNICEF's 2009 Japanese Handwashing Song and names the steps so they are easier to remember the mountain, the guitar, the motorcycle, the snake, the butterfly and kamehameha show that handwashing is certainly much more than just rubbing palms together!

In 1873, one of the first papers in modern medicine on the subject tried to explain the pathophysiology of the disease while one in 1872, concluded that asthma can be cured by rubbing the chest with chloroform liniment.