The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-21

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 grid
iron, or ST. Sebastian with his arrows.
To DR.. Leyden he had gone as the lead
ing authority on rheumatism in Europe,
and after having been told by many
eminent physicians that he must grin
and bear his affliction with all the phi
losophy ne might, when hope and the
efficacy of drugs ebbed low, the eminent
Germans opinion semed almost too good
TO be true.
Now, when the professor squared off
and looked over his patient he we'll nigh
chilled the Americans heart by begin
ming TO jot items down on an ominous-
looking little pad. 1t was not, however,
prescriptions he wrote. I'VE don't give
any medicines in such cases as yours,
said the doctor. What you need is diet
and exercise and plenty of both. The
rheumatic who lives a sedentary life and
feasts daintily is bound to come to
very bad end. Hearty. frequent, we'll
chosen meals and much busting about
in the open air are absolute essentials to
a cure. The prime cause of rheumatism
is indigestion, and though you may eat
prodgious meals. If your stomach does
not assimilate what is given it, you are
quite as poorly nourished as the man
who gets but a crust day.
"As TO what you can and cannot eat,
here is the rule: Of meats you must deny
yourself heavy dark flesh. Under this
head is itemized mutton, venison, goose,
and anything that is cut off a pig. De-
vote yourself to chicken, lamb, sweet
breads, brains and the more delicate fish,
when simply cooked and served without
rich sauces. Avoid lobster and crabs, but
enjoy oysters and CLAIMS and refuse every
fried dish. Of vegetables never touch to-
matoes, cucumbers, and all salads that
have a vinegar dressing, for an made
quate stomach is busy manufacturing all
and more powerful acid than the system
can endure. Eat lightly of potatoes, dried
beans or peas, and raw onions, but let
yourself indulge freely in green beans,
and peas, carrots, turnips, and we'll
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 po-
tatoes put together.
Strawberries, raw pears, and raw ap-
piles are cut off from the rheumatic, how
ever 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 to
and freely to lemon and lime Juice. A
divine healing quality is found in the
acid of both these fruits There is bur
one sentence to cover the use of sugar:
Don't eat it in any form whatsoever
americans make the best sweetmeats
in the world and suffer most cruelty from
their use of them.
Almost as sweeping a denunciation
may be made of all liquids save water
ana milk. Beer, claret, port and cham
payne act as a sort of poison on the
rheumatic system and though whisky
and brandy, gin and rum are not so in
FURIOUS, IT taken sparingly and at long
intervals they are best abjured and water
and milk substituted. In the past Ten
Years mineral waters have been consumed
In enormous quantities by rheumatics in
the belief that they afforded especial aid.
and they are efficacious, chiefly, though,
from the fact that they are very pure.
and that the use of them induces a pa
tient to imbibe an unusual quantity of
sweet cleansing liquid.
Il am willing to say that where mineral
waters are not easily obtained, any pure
| water, taken at the rate of two or three
| quarts day, has an equally salutary
| effect on the system. It must be pure,
however, and filtered, if there are any
| doubts about its cleanliness. This liquid,
| taken slowly, in small tumblersful, and
| for the most part between meals, will
| largely serve the purpose of mineral
water. Not more than a tumblerful is
| wholesome at each meal, and it is best
not to take the water just before going
| or Immediately after eating or on getting
| into bed.
| ''As I told you at first, rheumatic
must be nourished and most especially
| one who has a languid appetite. Three
meals a day is not enough for such a
| patient. Between breakfast and lunch
and between lunch and dinner a fresh
egg, beaten up in sweet. fresh milk, is
an excellent stimulant, more valuable
than all the milk punches ever devised
All these reasonable courses do not lead