text_1: Owning a chihuahua can help cure a person of asthma.
text_2: Beliefs that canines can be pressed into accepting human illness and thereby freeing human sufferers from their physical maladies are quite old. For instance, an 1898 folklore journal examined a Midwestern folk remedy that stated: “The Negro sometimes sleeps with a young dog in order to transmit rheumatism to the dog.”