The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-09
WAY TO CURE RHEUMATISM.
DIR. Leyden, the German Specialist, Gives
This Advice on theMatter.


existence will be almost free from it's
| torturing palms, That is what DR..
| Leyden of the University of Berlin
| said to an American recently. To Dr..
| I.eyden he had gone as the leading au-
thority on rheumatism in Europe. and
| after having been told by many physi-
| clans that he must grin and bear his
| aff1iction with all the philosophy he
i might when hope and the efficacy of
| drugs ebbed low. the Germans opin-
ion seemed almost too good to be true.
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 a sendentary life and feasts
daintily is bound to come to a very bad
end. Hearty, frequent. well-chosen
meals and much busting about in the
/ open air are absolute essentials to
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 crust a 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. Devote yourself to chicken, lamb.
| S"ttlDIeduS, Drains, anu the
| more delicate fish, when simply cooked
and served without rich sauces. Avoid
| lobster and crabs and every fried dish,
| but enjoy oysters and clans.
''Of vegetab les never touch tomatoes,
| cucum bers and all salads that have
| vinegar dressing. for an inadequate
| stomach is busy manufacturing more
| powerful acid than the system can en-
dure. 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 greens. For all the starch your
body needs rice is the proper source
of supply. An abundance of we'll
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 mans
joints to throbbing, he can help himself
safely and freely to lemon and lime
juice. A divine healing quality is found
in the acid of 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 Test
| 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
and milk. Beer, claret, port and cham
| payne act as a sort of poison on the
rheumatic system, and though whskey
and brandy, gin and rum are not so
| injurious, if taken sparingly and at
| long intervals, they are best abjured
and water and milk substituted. In
the past 10 years mineral waters have
been consumed in enormous quantities
by rheumatics in the belief that they
! aff cd al q of
| cacious, chiefly, though. from the fact
| that they are very pure, and that the
use of them induces patient to i'm
| bible an unusual quantity of sweet
| cleansing liquid.
Il am willing to say that where min
eral waters are not easily obtained any
| pure water taken at the rate of two
or three Quarts a day, has an equally
salutary effect on the system. 1t must
| be pure, however, and filtered, if there
are any doubts about its cleanliness.
This liquid. taken slowly, in small tum-
blerfus, and for the most part between
meals, will largely serve the purpose Of
mineral water. Not more than a tum-
blerful is wholesome at each meal, and
it is best not to take the water just
before or after eating or on getting
into bed.
"A rheumatic must be nourished, and
most especially one who has a langud
appetite. Three meals day are 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 slim
ulant, more valuable than all the milk
punches ever devised. All these rea-
sonable courses do not lead to cure.
though, unless exercise that is regular
and never stinted is taken every day.
First of ALL don't pretend to try for
', lot
since it is just as injurious to strain
the aching limbs as to let them lie
inert
For example, when rheumatism at
lacks the knees, to swim, to bicycle or
to play golf simply overtaXes the tor
tured nerves and muscles. but if you
will take a cane and walk quietly for a
mile or two, or if the weather is dry
take your gun and go prowling through
fields and woods in search of game, or,
lacking interest in that. try to cultivate
a taste for hunting botanical OF en-
tomological specimens, the exercise
then serves as a tonic The main point
is to use the muscles regularly. In wet
weather bedroom gymnastics serve as
an excellent substitute for the more
intelligent outdoor pleasures, hut only
in wet weather. Care must be taker
never to exercise so violently that any
danger is incurred from cooling off toe
suddenly.
THE average American puts consid-
cradle faith in baths, and naturally
prefers the stimulating cold water
This is well enough when the twinges
are not severe and the joints not swol-
len. In violent attacks of rheumat SIN
it is most essential to avoid cold water
and substitute a hot daily bath, dis
solving in the water a piece of sulphur
as big as hens egg. Such a bath
may not seem SO invigOrating as the
cold water, but if taken rapidly, fol-
lowed by brisk towelling, with no sud
den after-exposure for an hour to any
cold air or draughts, the hot dip is az
bracing as the cold.
Last on the list of aids to the rheu-
matte is massage. 1t is one of the few
! real aids to relief in severe attacks
| Amateur rubbing is often of as greai
, , INJURY as genuine help, but good
swedish masseuse can help an invalid
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