OPEN-AIR CURE
DOCTOR ON RHEUMATISM LORD DAWSON’S ADVICE LONDON, May 19. In the coarse of a lecture at Bath the famous physician, Lord Dawson of Penn, said: “When Nature put man upon two leg’s she made a great experiment. She threw a great strain on certain joints and muscles, and some of the ailments that develop with age are largely the expression of this strain and wear. It is misleading to call rheumatism a poverty disease.” Removing poverty would not remove rheumatism, unless the environment was changed. The most important factors in its elimination were better housing and domestic modes of living, ventilation, diet, clothing, and, above all, open-air recreation. There should be more people playing games and fewer watching. People should strive to get from their recreation their real value, namely, health.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 365, 28 May 1928, Page 9
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133OPEN-AIR CURE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 365, 28 May 1928, Page 9
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