Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1876 — Rheumatism a Symptom of Other Diseases. [ARTICLE]

Rheumatism a Symptom of Other Diseases.

The alarming extent of chronle rheumatism in the country has led to persistent investigation. It has lately been ascertained that the disease is the result of other Complicated diseases of the liver, kidneys, pancreas, blood, absorbents, etc. In other words, that rheumatism is a aybnptom. It is also fout.* Gut, by the removal of the complicated disease, the rheumatism disappears, as a result'which seems to substantiate the theory. We ill know, tb our sorrow, how fruitless the ordinary treatment of Giis disease has been, and we now hail with joy the dawn of this uew discovery. We all know that the symptoms of these diseases are generally present in cases of chronic rheumatism, but few have supposed the disease to be an effect To remove these diseases the surest remedy can be found ih the Shakßs Extract or Roots on Ccrattvb Strop; it appears to be working many cures. We refer to the article sold by Druggists and A. J. White, New York.

Lieutenant Murpht, whose name is well known in coppccUon with the Cameron Expedition into Central Africa, according to the Timet of India, has a companion also distinguished in Africap travel. This is the late Dr. Livingstone’s dog—the only dog that lias survived a journey into Central Africa. This faithful creature traveled from Zanzibar to Unyanyembe with the explorer, and then followed Livingstone’s body back to the coast. Hie dog wears a medal bearing the followirig inscription: “ Mabel, F. K. G. S., late Livingstone East Coast African Expedition, 1873-4.” It is a hull terrier of small siz* and white in color: It traveled 1,500 miles in Africa—a wonderful feat in pedestrianism—before it was twelve months old, and it has since traveled 15,000 miles by sea.