Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-23
GOING DOWN HILL"
How a Venerable Iowan Eyaded the
Greatest Difficulty Which
Resets the AGED.
burlington Qa.) Hawkeye. I

Burlington tla-) HaWkeye.
An account is going the rounds of the
press of woman who was so afflicted
with rheumatism for fifteen years that her
entire muscular system became rigid, and
for all that period she was kept alive By
Cruel forced between her teeth.
A prominent New York physician was
once asked what rheumatism was. He re-
piled: "God only knows" He was I'M
doubleday right, because rheumatism
seems to spring from different cause in
every individual case. If its origin IS
mystery its effects are too well and too
widely known, for there is scarcely any
season of the year when some persons are
not more or less affected by it. In general,
however, it prevails mostly among the
aged, making their last days hard to bear
4 prominent physician once remarked in
our hearing: If the aged could escape
the tortures of rheumatism, their last years
as rule would be quiet, peaceful ana
painless"
of pella. Ia. sends rs a communication
which ordinarily we would not publish ex-
cept at so much line. But his experience
| has been so remarkable that we think
| we are justified in giving place to 1t. He
says: NJ.
| this town, and what l say do not think
will be doubted by anyone who knows me.
Jrp to a wear OF two ago | was the pOsSeSSor
of splendid health, and hoped | should
wear out my life gradually and gracefully.
Two years ago, however, l was overcome
with that curse of old age, rheumatism.
| When it first Frustrated me the pain was
so acute thought it was neuralgia, which
medical authorities tell me indicates
| a low state of the system. | tancled
that this attack was the beginning Of
the end. | sent for a good doctor, who
treated me with electrical and other agen-
cies, but grew worse. He finally said my
case was a serious rheumatic one. For six
months could not use my limbs at all,
and was handled by three strong persons,
like helpless child. Then came period
of better feelings, but reaction followed,
and for six long months of pitiful suffering
| was confined to the bed For over a year
/ groaned i'll agony. ! tried all reputable
lotions, liniments, plasters and prepare
tons in vain. AT this stage my friend Ell
der Overcamp came to see me, and upon
| his urgent recommendation | began the
use of warmers safe rheumatic cure, few
| bottles of which gave back to me the use of
my limbs. | am now sleeping without
! pain, eating without distress, and feel as
| sprv as did when | was go years OF aye.
l cordially recommend that preparation TO
all persons afflicted as was and especially
to the thousands Of aged men and women
whose last days are embittered by this af-
Fiction
Mr.. DeGens' letter is Endorsed by Elder
Overcamp, who says he is Il member of his
| Church, and his case 10 him is surprising
and marvellous. Mr.. T. W. Brinkhotf also
indorses the statement in similar terms.
There is no doubt that this is a true re-
| ctal of the case, and Mr.. DeGenS' expert
ence should be all encouragement to all
others suffering as he did, to use the means
SO successfully employed, for nothing bet
ter, if indeed as good, can be had in the
market.