SUPERSTITIOUS ABOUT RHEUMATISM

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2482, 8 June 1915, Page 3

SUPERSTITIOUS ABOUT RHEUMATISM

There is a good deal of superstition in " regard to the treatment of rheumatism. s There are shops where magic rheumatic s rings can be purchased; while some suf- f ferers are content to carry some supposed p charm in a pocket. d Superstitions in regard to rheumatism j probably persist because there are many things that are still unknown about [j rheumatism from a medical standpoint. The treatment of it is still far from sat- ? isfactory. Doctors realise this, but nobody is more fully aware of it than the 8 sufferers themselves. t A tendency to rheumatism once estab- P lished, the pain often returns with every I change of weather, showing that the s poison is 1 still in the blood awaiting fav- 0 ourable conditions to become active and (j cause trouble. ( [ One fact is known and acknowledged f, by all medical writers and that is the j rapid thinning of the blood when the , rheumatic poison invades it. Building l: up tho blood is the best remedy for R rheumatism as tho enriched blood is able ° to overcome or throw off the poisons of s the disease. For this reason rheumatic s sufferers should be interested in the sue- I cess which Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have a had in tho treatment of this painful q disease. 0 They increase the blnod supply and im- (v part enorgy, and sufferers have proved it that through a course of them, the sys- ■ tern has been enabled to throw off the rheumatic poison. They have also noted that tho complaint did not return with ; thf- next damp weather. Dr. Williams' it