Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1880 — The Source of Disease. [ARTICLE]

The Source of Disease.

‘The way it is done,” is the title of an interesting little book by Mrs. Warren, the well known writer of several valuable books on domestic economy. Here is an extract which might be read with interest by suflecers from rheumatism — "I can’t get up stairs, I be so crippled.” “Just try it a step at a time, and test. And what do you sleep in, sheets'or blankets?’

"Sheets of course; what else? I have got blankets oveune, and a good thick counterpane over that.” - “I thought so; put away the sheets and tho counterpane, and sleep in blankets, under and over, and no counterpane at all. The sheets and the counterpane do a great deal of mischief.” now, how can that be?’ ‘The cotton keeps the sour heat and perspiration from the body in the bed, and so you breathe the poisoned air all night, summer and winter, and that poisoned air makes your rheumatism ten times worse. If you were in blankets, they would not absorb the perspiration; it would pass through from one to the other, but in cotton, if it absorbs it—l had better say soaks into it—there it remains cold or hot, or clammy;” ‘That may be right, sure enough, for do perspire so with pain, might Wiiar the p’ •eeta «wn®times.”