The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-04-30
EXERCISES FOR RHEUMATIC WOMEN.

their health from very unselfshness.
Thousands have no time to take precau-
tions. Every physician knows that there
are nyriads OF women who are too tired
to observe rules OF eating, sleeping, bath
ing and exercise. Their stomachs cease
to digest. their skins lose tone SO that
they take cold easily, their muscles break
down. 1t seems almost useless to cry
aloud in the ears of these hurried and
tired women.
''Save a little energy for future years;
creasing difficulty in keeping your sys-
tenn in tone,'
Yet the time used today in exercise
would be regained tomorrow or next
week.
TREATMENT FOR CHRONIC RHEUMATISM.
Ifyou have chronic rheumatism and are
already stiff, you best cure yourself by
swift means. Send for good masseure
and have massage every morning before
your days work begins. II you live in
certain great cities, there are Institutes
where you can go and let machines
kneed, pound, tap and roll your muscles
until you feel like a new creature.
Ii you cannot afford this luxury, you
needs must do the work for yourself.
You cannot give yourself massage very
If the rheumatism is in the lower limbs,
begin treatment with the ankles. Seat
yourself in low chair. rest the calf of
your leg on a hassock, and rotate the
ankle forty times outWards and forty
times upwards. Then bend it upwards
and downwards against the resistance
which you can make with your own
hands. Pinch it, press it, knead it deeply
as you would knead dough, rub it from
tho fooc IN tho Rneo then hattie If in M
soda water and go to bed.
Do the same thing for any sore joint
not actually infiamed, give yourself half
an hour of your day.
MUSCULAR RHEUMATISM.
If you have purely muscular rheumatism
between the shoulders or in the back,
take the following exercise:
ID Stand facing your doorway bar
placed at the height of your waist.
Hands on hips, fingers forward, heels to-
gether. Bend forward from the waist as
far as possible, leaning on the bar, keep
ing the knees stiff and the eyes on the
ceiling. Now do vigorous arm move
ments, upward, outward and backward,
with all the force possible.
(2.1 Stand with your back to the bar,
and bend backward as far az possible over
it, doing the some movements with the
arms.
49, Hands on hips as before, shoulders
we'll back, and rotate the upper part of
your body on the hips as pivot Bend
well forward, to the right, backward, to
the left and forward again Describe as
large a circle with your head as possible,
When you are dizzy from rotating in one
direction then untwist.
(4.) Lie on a table or bench, face down.
your feet held down by some person or
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try to raise up by bending your back
backwards. After you can do this we'll,
try TO turn the body while you raise it.
o. rheumatism OF the hip requires
leg and hip movement. Lie on your back
and rotate each leg in turn and then to-
gether, making large perfect circle in
each direction
(6) A treadle-motion in great modera-
ton is good for muscular rheumatism in
excellent exercise. Also long mountain
walks.
"a Whatever exercise you take must
be in well ventilated room, and let as
much attention be paid to the breathing
as to the movement. Finish every
set of exercises with long, full, lung ex-
pansion, and you will soon learn the
value of oxygen for rheumatism.
CAUSES OF RHEUMATISM.
And now what is the cause of rheuma-
tism? and why adopt treatment by exer-
cises? The cause is an excess OF Tactic
acid in the system.
This excess may be due to failure in d.
gestion; or to some want of tone in the
nerve centres which preside over assimi-
latioa of food. There may be little
rheumatism microbe--who knows7 but
ii one should be found who could tell
why it attacks one joint and not an
other?
1t IS enough Tor practical preventive
posed to changes of weather and of tenn
perature, and at the same time allow