Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1895 — Prevention of Rheumatism. [ARTICLE]

Prevention of Rheumatism.

One who has even a strong tendency can certainly do much to prevent rheumatism. The “busy” season for that disease commences about October. Why is it? That we do not knotv, but it is quite safe to infer that owlngto a certain combination of influences people are then in a condition specially favorable to It. After a spell of hot weather, says the Cincinnati Enquirer, the systems of many who have not been fortunate enough

to evade the heat in shady placet at summer resorts are relaxed. weakeaeA and more or less choked up with waste material. Exercise, the great eliminator of such waste, is quite naturally neglected during hot weather. And. moreover, those who exercise too little are sure to eat too much. So autumn tinds them In a sluggish state, as we have said, with all the waste avenues clogged up. That io a condition of things very favorable to j rheumatism. It naturally follows that those in tliat condition, ami esi>eciaßy 1 those who an* Kuhject to the disease in qm-stion, should live abstemiously, ex- ' ercise freely, keep the skin active by j frequent Isithing, the liowels open with fruits, and drink water in large quantities. Water dissolves and washes waste matter out of the system; it is, therefore, an absolute essential where there is nuy iiiqatinnent in the action of the kidneys, Isiwels or skin. Even If these simple rules are observisl there will be ordinarily but little danger of rheumatism.