A CERTAIN CURE FOR RHEUMATISM.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 930, 21 October 1879, Page 2

A CERTAIN CURE FOR RHEUMATISM.

Long ago we protested that m celery there must be some special virtue, if we only knew what it was. Nothing is made m vain, and the powerful smell and extraordinary taste of celery were, we declared, intimation from nature that it had Borne special mission. Mr. Ward, of Periston Towers, Ross, writes to the Times to tell us that rheumatism becomes impossible if celery is freely used as an article of died. Unfortunately he says cooked celery, and it is the article m its raw state to which we are all accustomed. "Cut the celery," he says, "into inch dice. Boil m water until soft. No water must be poured away unless drunk by the invalid. Then take new milk, slightly thicken with flour, and flavor with nutmeg, warm with the celery m saucepan ; serve with diamonds of toasted bread m a round dish, and eat with potatoes. " " Permit me to say," he adds, "that cold or damp never produce rheumatism, but simply develope it. The acid blood is the primary cause and sustaining power of the evil. While the blood is alkaline there can be no rheumatism and equally no gout." And Mr. Ward proceeds to say : " Let me fearlessly say that rheumatism is impossible on such diet, and yet our medical-men, m 1876, allowed rheumatism to kill 3640 human beings— every case as unnecessary as a dirty face. Worse still, of the 30,471 .registered as dying from heart disease, at least two* thirds of these are due, more or less, to rheumatism, and its ally, gout. What a trifle is small-pox, with its 2408 deaths, alongside an immense 'slayer of over 20,000 human ; yet rheumatism may be put aside for ever, by simply obeying nature's laws respecting the description of diet."— -Wellington Fost.