SUPERSTITIONS ABOUT RHEUMATISM

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2524, 27 July 1915, Page 7

SUPERSTITIONS ABOUT RHEUMATISM

There, is a good deal of superstition, in regard to the treatment of rheumatism. There are shops where magic 'rheumatic rings can be purchased; while some sufferers aro content to carry some supposed charm in a pocket. v Superstitions in regard to rheumatism probably persist because there are many things that are . still unknown about the complaint from a medical standpoint. /Tfao treatment of it is still far from satisfactory. Doctors realise, this, but nobody is more fully awaTe than tho sufferers themselves. •- A tendency to rheumatism established, the pain often returns with overy change of weather, showing that tlje poison is still 'in tho blood awaiting favourablo conditions to become active and cause trouble. ' • One fact is known and acknowledged by all medical writers, and that is tho rapid thinning of the blood when tho rheumatic poison invades it. Building-up/tho blood is the best remedy for rhoumatism as the enriched blood is able to overcome or throw off the poisons of tho disease. For this reason rheumatic sufferers should be interested in tho success which, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have had in the treatment of this painful disease. They increaso the blood supply and impart, energy, and sufferers have proved that through a. course of them, the systhem has been enabled to throw off the rheumatic poison. They have also noted that the complaint did not return with the next, damp weather. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills nro sold by all dealers. A useful booklet on "Diseases of the Nervous System"-will be sent free to any address.