Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-14
Climate Effect
On Arthri+is
Analysed
Question Of Place to Go
Puzzles Sufferers

Puzzles Sufferers
BY LOGAN CLENDENING, M. d
THE sufferer with chronic ar
= Thrills gets along all right in
our North American Summer,
hut with Winter just around the
corner, he begins to want to go
to some climate where the
weather at least won't be con-
sidered an enemy and add to
/ the discomfort.
Where to 60 Is a problem. n
I can judgesQf its extent by in
quiries in my mail, it affects a
good many people.
OF course an easy answer Is
TO 60 TO q Winter climate as
nearly like the Summer climate
where you were comfortable, but
that il not always possible.
Some people are so suspicious
that they want TO know how
much arthritis the natives have
before they settle down some
where.
My Uncle Johnny was like
that. He was q rare sufferer
from arthritis and once my
father sent him TO a resort. for
which we had heard great claims
as to its arthritis treatments.
My Uncle Johnny went. but he
came back in four days. He
said the first day he went to the
pool of the healing waters and
an attendant, waist deep In the
pool, applied them all over my
Uncle Johnny's joints.
TT APPEARED to do him a
l. world Of good, and he went
back next day for more. He
asked for the same attendant,
but was told he was home with
an attack Of arthritis.
My Uncle Johnny packed his
grips and made for the train.
He said If a man who had stood
waist deep in that healing water
for 20 years got arthritis, IL was
no treatment for him.
That Is mixing things up.
What brings arthritis on, we
don't know, and IL may attack
a person In a climate that makes
for the maximum of comfort for
other arthritic patiepts.
Climate Is composite of
temperature. humidity. barom-
eric pressure, atmospheric cleo
tricity and other factors.
Doctors Rentschler, Vanzant
and Rontree found In a study
Of "Arthritic Pain in Relation
to Change in Weather" that
barometric pressure influenced
the symptoms OF arthritis more
consistently than temperature
or humidity.
This, of course. is no news to
the old gaffer who can tell when
storm is brewing on account
Of his knees and fingers.
HUMIDITY does play a part.
IA The arthritic feels better
on cold, dry days than on cold.
damp days: also better on hot,
dry days; and on hot. humid
days they may feel worse than
in Winter.
Despite the cold none of
SCOTS or Shackleton's Arctic
explorers had rheumatism or
arthritic symptoms.
Despite the shifts in tempera-
ture between Winter days and
nights in Arizona, arthritic pa
tients feel better there because
of the stability of barometric
pressure and humidity.
OF Importance for all arthri-
tics is what Leonard Hill in
rheumatism and Clima at e"
called the "micro-climate" of
home and working place.
Here temperature and damp
ness can make the arthritic very
uncomfortable.
QUESTIONS, ANSWERS
+. BIS there anything
wrong or harmful in the COM
bination of orange Juice and
milk?
l drink a glass of each for
breakfast--not mixed but sepa-
rate-and my mother insists it
is bad combination.
Answer-Nothing the least
harmful in the combination of
orange juice and milk.
Orange juice adds vitamins
and sugar and energy to the diet.
the milk gives nourishment and
calcium.
They are digested together
without harming one another or
straining the stomach.
Little babies get the combina-
tion--so II should be all right.