SUPERSTITIONS ABOUT RHEUMATISM

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2826, 18 July 1916, 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 6ome suf-ferers-are content to carry sonie supposed charm in a pocket.

Superstitions in regard to rheumatism probably persist because there are many things that are still unknown about the complaint from a medical standpoint. The treatment of it is still far from satisfactory.;' Doctors realise this, but nobody is more fully, aware of it than the sufferers themselves. . A tendoncy to rheumatism once established, i.the pain often roturns with every change of weather, showing that tho poison is still in the blood awaiting friv-. ou.rable conditions to become active aud cause trouble. . One fact is known and acknowledged by all medical writers, and that is the rapid .thinning of the. blood when tho rheumatic poisjn invades it. Building up tho blood is the best remedy for rheumatism as the enriched blood is able to overcome or throw off the poisons of the 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 increase the bloo<l supply and impart energy, and sufferers have proved that through a courso of them the system has been enabled to throw off the rheumatic poison. They have also noted that the complaint did not return witli tho next damp weather, i Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold by dealers. A useful booklet on "Diseases of tho Nervous System" will bo sent free lo ■ any address.