The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-06
HOME HEALTH CLUB

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 Rheumatism: Once in a while the student of ailments gets quite a jolt and all of his previous ideas of cause ana effect are disarranged The cause of rheumatism has beeu a Question about which there has been moro discussion, contradictions and flat denial, I presume, than any other aA1rnent, and the end is not in sight. Many years ago noted the fact that severe vases of Pyorrhea were nearly always followed by more or less rheumatism. Pyorrhea is 8 disease of the gums or teeth in which pus is secreted and discharges con stantly into the mouth. The teeth generally get loose but are not all ways painful, so they are neglected. The sufferer realizes that his teeth are loose and that his breath is very offensive and some realize that pus is constantly coming out between the tooth and the gum but as long as there is no pain the neglect con tintes.
 Another thing thatsI observed many years ago, and other physicians have. observed the same thing, people who have freqeunt1y suffered with La Grippe. seldom if ever have an att tack of it after having been operated upon for appendicitis. have not had the time to personally study the connection between cause and effect further than to find that LaGrippe does not attack people that never are constipated and neither does appen- dicitis, and while the removal of the appendix does not cure constipation it does appear to stop the attacks of La Grippe.
 It is now commonly admitted by many of the foremost investigators that.zthe cause of rheumatism origin ates in secretion of pus at some. point from which 1t gets into the blood, sometimes from pyorrhea./ In other cases it may be from diseased tonsfls, from what may be diagnosed sources, but these are the most. fre1 quents and most readily located sour ces of infection as well as the easi- est to successfully treat Now, if you suffer from rfeuma- tisrn the wise thing to do Is to find : out Just as quickly as possible and from a reliable source whether, or not any of these conditions exists in i your case.
 In talking. with a physician this i morning, one who has been helping
 me in my office work for a. long Hmes he said that for many years he had been able to trace certain eases of heart trouble back, first through rheu- natism and from that to tonsilitfs, then back to sore throats and ten dency to take cold on the slightest exposure and from that to constipa- . ton The same powers of digestion. assimilation and elimination do not exist in any two individuals alike, so we see man and wife or two broth CTS eating at the same table, of the same food for a period of years One is quite deshy, even to the point of obesity while. the other is thin. some times to the point of ernaclation- One member of the family is constantly afflicted with constipation while an other is the reverse. Each case and each individual will exhibit to the eye of the careful and trained diag- nostician an entirely different prob lem in dietetic treatment.k
 There is no hard and fast rule and one diet cure for all; just so long as human beings are different, the one from the other, So, long will 1t be necessary to give various means of cure for sickness and so long as such simple ailnent as constipation and colds in the children are neglected, just so long must the adults suffer the penalty.