Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1887 — Damp Weather and Rheumatism. [ARTICLE]

Damp Weather and Rheumatism.

“Rheumatism?” “Yes, Doctor. My shoulders ache, and I can hardly raise my arms to my head. ” “It is bad weather for rheumatism.” “Why should it be?” queried the sufferer. “I haven't caught any cold. I wore an overcoat, and the dampness hasn’t chilled me. ’’ “I’ll tell you why,” answered the physician, who is a well-known lecturer in one of the leading medical colleges of this city. “The dampness of the atmosphere makes the atr lighter. This affects its pressure on the body. Of course that produces a temporary disturbance of the system.” “But why Bliould that affect my rheumatism?" “Any disturbance of the system affects the most sensitive parts of a man. If he has rheumatism it brings on sharp pains; if ho has corns or a bunion, those give him trouble, and if a nerve is exposed in one of his teeth He is at once informed of that fact.” “Then there is really a reason for those pains in damp weather.” “Indeed there is. To a sufferer from such disorders there is no surer barometer in the world than his aching members. ” — New York Sun.