THE RHEUMATISM CURE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1775, 14 March 1906, Page 13

THE RHEUMATISM CURE.

Dr Leyden, of Berlin, who is the leading authority tfii rli« tnatism, in Europe, declares that while, you never can eradicate it, you can control it by exercise in the open air, much, bustling about, and hearty and frequent meals from which most of the thipgs appearing in the ordinary bill of fare are left out.

Of meats you must do, \y yourself heavy, dark flesh. Under this head is itemised mutton, venison, goose and anything that is cut off a pig. Devote yourself to chicken, lamb, game, sweetbreads and tlie moire dedicate fish, when simply cooked and served vuthout rich sauces. Avoid lobsters and every fried fish, but enjoy oysters and clams. Of vegetables never touch tomatoes, cucumbers, and all salads that have a vinegar dressing, for an inadequate stomach is busy manufacturing more acid than the system can endure. Eat lightly of potatoes, dried beans or peas, and raw onions, but indulge freely in green beans and carrots, turnips mid wellcooked greens. For all the starch you need rice is the proper source of supply. An abundance of well-cooked rice is worth all the bread and beans and potatoes put together.

Strawberries, raw pears acd raw apples are cut from the rheumatic, also grape and orange juice, but there, is a divine healing of quality in the acid of lemons and limes. There is but one sentence to cover the use of sugar—and that is don’t eat it in any form whatsoever. Almost as sweeping a denunciation is made of all liquids, except water and milk, coffee, tea, beer, claret, port and champagne acting as a sort of poison on the rheumatic system.

Six months of this diet was all the treatment followed by a young-old lady, who declared herself to be as good as new, except that she took four or five times a day as she felt the least twinge a few drops of oil of wintergreen. About this she made the discovery that .there are two grades of different efficiency, one in manufactured and one the real, and the latter-being the only one which was really helpful.