Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-16
The fatm aid firesiae,
RHEUMATISM.

RHEUMATISM.
Common rheumatism is disease which
affects the joints, the hinges Of the body, in
such way that the slightest motion of the all
ing part gives pain. A cresking hinge is
dry and turns hard. A single drop Of oil to
mosten it makes % wonderful change, and it
instantly moves on itself with the utmost
facility. All kinds of rheumatism are an
Inflammation of the surface of the joints. In.
hammation is heat; the heat dries their sur.
faces, hence the very slightest effort at motion
gives piercing psin.%. In healthy condition
of the parts nature is constantly throwing
lubricating oil, which keeps the joints in a
perfectly smooth end easy working condition.
Rheumatism is always caused by-indeed it
may be nearer the truth to say that it is al
ways the result of-a cold dampness. A dry
cold or warm danpness will not induce rheu-
matism.
A garment, wetted by perspiration or rain,
or water in any form, about the joint, and
allowed to dry while the person is in a state
of rest, is the most common way of causing
rheumatism. A partial wetting of gar
ment is more apt to induce an attack thar if
the entire clothing were wetted, because in
the latter case it would be certainly and
speedily exchanged for dry garments. There
are two very certsin methods of preventing
rheumatism. The moment a garment is wet
ted, in whole or in part, change it or keep in
motion sufficient to maintain very slight
perspiration unit: the clothing is perfectly
dry.
The failure to wear wooden flannel next
the skin is the most frequent cause Of rheu-
matism for q common muslin or linen or
silk shirt by perspiration becomes damp and
cold the instant puff of air strikes it, even in
midsummer. This is not the case where
wooden flannel is worn next to the skin.
The easiest, most certain and least hurtful
way of curing this troublesome affection is
FIRST, to keep the Joint affected wound around
with several folds of wool, or flannel live en-.
tirely on the lightest kind of food, such as
coarse breads, ripe fruits, boiled turnips,
stewed apples and the like. If such things
were eaten to the extent of keeping the sys.
tenn freely open, and exercise were taken, 80
that slight moisture should be on the skin
all the time, or if in bed the same thing we're
accomplished BY hot teas and plenty Of bed.
clothing, a grateful relief and an ultimate
cure will very certainly result in very short
time. Without this soft and moist condition
of the skin and an open state of the system,
the disease will continue to torture for weeks
and months and years. Infammatory rheu-
matism may, for all practical purposes, be
regarded as an aggravated form of a common
kind, extending to all joints of the body in.
stead of duplicating only one or two. For all
kinds, time, flannel and warmth, with light
and cooling diet, are the great remedies.
CoNsr1pAT1oN.-Hall' Journal of Health
thinks it doubtful if consumption numbers
as many victims as are stricken down BY the
various diseases that result from habitual con-
stipation. True consumption is an inherited
disease. 1t NAV remain always dormant,
but when arousei to action, decay commences
at point circul lscribed, and gradually ex.
tends-unless ar, ssted-until so much Of the
lungs becomes involved that vital action
ceases. The evils Of constipation result from
inattention to the calls Of nature, and usually
commence with children whose habits are not
closely looked to by their parents. The pro-
cesses of nature are always active while life
lasts When effete matter is retained q mo
ment beyond the time its expulsion is de-
manded, the system commences its effort to
get rid of it.; When the natural egress is
checked, the absorbents carry the more fluid
portions of the poisonous mass into the circu-
lation and it becomes difused throughout the
body. The more solid or clay-like portions
is forced into the lower rectum, where it be-
comes firmly impacted, thus cutting. off the
circulation in the small vessels, causing pain
full engagements, known as piles and hemor.
rhoids. A continuance Of these troubles Of
ten results in 6ssure, 6stuls or cancer. The
trouble is seldom confined here. As result
of blood poisoning we almost invariably fnd
more or less dyspepsia, with decided derange-
ment of the functions of the heart, liver and
kidneys, accompanied by headache and ner.
vous debility, verging often on paralysis.
HONOR OLD AGE.-Bow low the head,
boy do reverence to the old man as he passes
slowly along. Once like you, the vicissitudes
of life have silveved the hair and changed
the round face to the worn vissge before you.
Once the heart beat with aspirations ce.equal
to any you have felt aspirations crushed BY
disappointment, as yours are perhaps destined
to be. Once that form stalked proudly
through the gay scenes of pleasures, the beau
ideal of grace now the hand of time, that
withers the flowers of yesterday, has warped
the figure and destroyed the noble carriage.
Once, at your age, he had ten thousand
thoughts that paes through your brain-now
wishing to accomplish something worthy in
fame, anon imagining life dream that the
sooner he woke from the better. But he has
lived the dream nearly through. The time
to wake is very near at hand yet his eyes
still kindled at old deeds of daring, and his
hand takes frner grip of his staff. Bow
low the head, boy, as you would vim your old
age be reverenced.
observation-disclosures of sedentary hab-
it's, who eat heartily of rich food, make 80
much blood that the elimination of waste
material from the system is not rapid enough
to maintain the equilibrium consequently,
there is an excess of blood to be circulated.
which overworks the heart. This strain, long
continued, results in disease. Precisely the
same thing may result from an opposite
course. If the nourishment is insufficient,
the circulation becomes sluggish, the action
of the heart feeble, and its walls dilated and
diseased And 80 with the brain. There
are quite as many cases of apoplexy from
over abstemiousness as from the opposite
cause. Thus also with congestions and in
Examinations affecting the various vital organs.