Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-09-08
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DIR. Leyden, the Berlin
Specialist, Tells of a
Remedy.
Especial Cor. Commercial Tribune.I

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| Berlin, August 10.
"By hygienic living you can not
eradicate your rheumatism, but you
can most assuredly control it that
your existence will be almost free
from its torturing pains" That is
what DIR. Leyden, of the University
of Berlin. said to an American, who
feels sure that he has endured far
more from his aching bones than
ever did st. Lawrence on his gridiron.
cr st. Sebastian with his arrows.
Now, when the professor squared
off and looked over the patient he
well nigh chilled the Americans
heart liy beginning to jot items down
on an misunderstanding little pad. 1t
was not, however, II prescription lie
wrote. 1--WE don't give any medicine
in such cases as yours" said the
doctor. What you need is diet and
exercise, and plenty of both. The
rheumatic who lives Il sedentary life
and fcasts daintily is bound to come
to very bad end. Hearty, frequent,
MCll-choscn meals and much bust
ing about in the open air are abso-
lutte essentials to Il cure. The prime
cause of rheumatism is indigestion,
and though you may cat prodigious
meals, if your stomach does not as
simulate what is given it, you are
quite as poorly nourished as the man
who gets but Il crust a day.
WHAT TO EAT.
"As to what you can and can not
eat here is the rule: OF meats you
must deny yourself heavy, dark
flesh. Under this head are itemized
mutton, venison, goose and every
thing that is cut off a pig. Devote
yourself to chicken, lamb, game,
sweet breads, brains and the more
delicate fish, when simply cooked |
and served without rich sauces. Avoid |
Holsters and crabs, but enjoy oysters |
and clans, and refuse every fried |
fish. OF vegetables never touch to-
cucumbers and salads that |
have a vinegar dressing, for an inad-
equate stomach is busy manufacture
ing more powerful acids than the |
system can endure. Eat lightly of |
potatoes, dried beans, or peas, and
raw onions, but let yourself indulge
freely i'm green beans and peas, car
rots, turnips and well-cooked green's.
For all the starch your body needs
rice is the proper source of supply.
An abundance of well-coOked rice is
worth all the bread and beans and
potatoes put together.
Strawberries, raw pears and raw
apples are cut off from the rheumatic,
however wholesome they may be for
others, and, strangely enough, where
grape and orange juice will set a
mans joints to thrObbing, he can
help himself safely and freely to
lemon and lime juice. A divine heal
ing quality is found in both these
fruits. There is but one sentence to
cover the use of sugar: Don't eat it
in any form whatsoever. Americans
make the best sweetmeats i'm the
world and suffer most cruelty from
the use of them.
WHAT TO DRINK.
"Almost as sweeping denunciation
may be made of all liquids save wat
or and milk. Beer, claret, port and
champagne act as sort of poison on
the rheumatic system, and, though
and brandy, gin and rum are
not so injurious, if taken sparingly
and at long intervals, they are best
abjured, and water and milk substi-
tuted. In the past ten years mineral
waters have been consumed in enor-
nous quantities by rheumatics In the
belief that they afforded especial aid,
and they are efiicacious, chiefly,
though, through the fact that they
are very pure, and that the use of
them induces the patient to imbibe
m unusual quantity of sweet cleans
ing liquid.
81 am willing to say that where
waters are not easily OBJ
any pure water, taken at the
rate of two or three quarts day, has
an unusually salutary effect on the
system. 1t must be pure, however,
and filtered, if there are any doubts