The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1914-03-18
PUBLIC HEALTH

rhoro is nothing that newspaper
- ID of more vital Importance to
eO' saodars than to deal with the sub
~ ~ nublic health and give informa-
Je'' roiative to the laws of health.
wv mVa most successful manner of COM
Zinc lr certain diseases is to dissent
Va. Information about them and in
a a.n, tbe public 1t is well known and
s.orved of men that most people real
!. a. not know how to care for health.
:, fact it is a subject on which onoe
sns are too proficient. Health means
~aaltb and happiness and there are
aors of suffering and loss OF money
s.d time due to carelessness and the
,.,t of proper knowledge about caring
fOr health. to say nothing of the loss
i life and the misery that is brought
- others. At this season of the year,
tbe following clipped from an ex-
change giving information about rheu-
matism is of timely Importance:
If one asks the doctor what is the
,.nse of rheumatism he may be told
aerrors of diet, worry and care, strains
and injuries, but first and above all
eyposure to cold and damp" The best
course for people predisposed to rheu-
matism is to take every possible pre-
stationary measures against an at
tack.
Besides rheumatic fever, which is a
bacterial disease, there are three chief
forms of rheumatism, namely, arthri-
lis deformans, or rheumatic govt,
chronic rheumatism and muscular
rheumatism,
Beware
We really know very little as to the
real cause of any of them. But the
first ana second are diseases mostly
Of middle life and later, and are very
common among women, while muscu-
lar rheumatism is most common be-
fore the age of forty-five.
Probably in all three an inherited
tendency is frequently present. Pro-
baby also there is bodily defect in
those prone to rheumatism which ia
vors the accumulation in the blood of
some poison; whether this is uric acid
or another substance is still debated
question,
Damp Clothes and Draughts.
Lumbago is generally started by a
wetting, a severe chilling of the back,
an injury or sudden strain. Stiff neck
is commonly the result of lying in bed
IN such a position as to strain the
muscles Of the neck, but in most cases
this cause is aided by draught on the
neck or by chill or wetting the day
before
Sciatica is usually brought about by
sitting on something cold, sometimes
Oy an extension of lumbago. 1t is
supposed that in addition there is
more or less poisonous condition of
'he blood, due very often to unwhole-
some food and sometimes to an UNI
clean state Of the mouth
Muscular rheumatism of the shout
yer and upper arm may be produced
'y sitting in a draughty train or near
an open window or by wetting much
u he same way as chronic rheuma-
aSm Is provoked by cold and damp.
ana again, cold and damp combined
WIN errors in diet are the main causes
VI fheumatoid arthritis or rheumatic
govt.
10 all such sufferers it should be
sa"' Avoid getting wet, and if you
~ get wet change your clothes at the
mS' opportunity. On no account sit
VI stand in draughts.
a wear warm clothing. DO not try to
harden the body by wearing little
less than sufficient.
a Few Mems.
i. AVOID as much as possible sudden
sa"seS OF temperature, such as are
,;,s; siienced when going from warm
n s room to a cold bedroom.