Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-01
Home Health
Club
D. DAVID q. FEEDER. Ph. D.. ND.
La Porte, Ind.
RHEUMATISM.
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1
Since the first Home Health Club
lectures were published, over seven
years ago, | have several times dis
cussed the subject of home treatment
for rheumatism. All of the various
methods described will apply, because
rheumatism is a condition which mani
tests itself in many ways, and, although
the general characteristics are the
same in nearly all cases, yet as an in
dividual condition it is seldom that two
cases are alike.
1t has been well said that nothing
will make firmer friends of a couple of
old confederate and union soldiers than
to have a touch of the same kind of
rheumatism. Anyone who suffers with
rheumatism will probably %sympathize
with all other such sufferers and will
also read with interest of the many
simple home cures that have been
from time to time given in my lectures.
| believe that l am correct in my
idea that rheumatism can come from
only one source, indigestion. The food,
or at least a portion of it, remains too
long in the alimentary canal. Fer
m~entation takes place.
We all know that one of the natural
results of fermentation is an acid.
Now in vinous fermentation there is
developed or set free carbonic acid gas,
while the souring of milk gives rise
TO Tactic acid, acetous lamentations
produces acetic acid, etc., etc. Is it
not reasonable, therefore, and logical
that the souring of urea, which is a
natural but waste product of the nor
NAL being, should produce uric acid?
Now uric acid is not a natural product
Of a healthy body and is not found in
perfectly normal urine, but, as l said
before, urea is a natural but waste
product and comes from oxidation of
the heterogeneous tissues, the waste or
ashes, so to speak, of the body. We
know what conditions are necessary to
produce fermentation and we know
that such conditions are present in
people who sometimes say that they
have perfect ulgestion but are terribly
troubled with constipation, not know
ing that the second statement fatty
c%ontradicts the first. When more food
is eaten than is required by the sys-
tenn, improper combinations Of food
or insufficient mastication, the condi-
ton is ripe for fermentation.
Now perhaps l have said enough
about the original or predisposins
cause of rheumatism, but sufficient tt
give you an idea where we must begir
treatment if we wish to effect a cure
Live right, eat right, eat to live, no
i've to eat.
Let me tell you about a case O
rheumatism that was cured in a man
ner which would, according to the pop
ular idea of the causes of rheumatism
have caused a very bad case of it. a
man who had suffered for years will
rheumatism and was at that time suf
fering a little with rheumatic fever
was by accident confined in a DAM
building without food for five days
He had access to a clear spring of pur
water which flowed from the cellar
He drank an abundance. and when lib
Grated, was in almost perfect physica
condition. Not a trace of fever an,
not a rheumatic pain or ache.
have frequently directed a diet lin
tied strictly to dry toast and fresh but
termilk for a week. In the case o
stout people. that is, people who hav
too much fat. the result is excellent
Not only will the fat disappear quit
rapidly. but they will be stronger an
free from rheumatism.
There are many kinds Of simpl
home treatment Of which | will gladl
tell you more at some future time. Fo
the present, to relieve acute rheu
matte pains. adopt the hints l hay
lust given you.