SUPERSTITIONS ABOUT RHEUMATISM.
There if- a good deal of superstition in regard to the treatme.nl of rheumatism. There are shops where magic rheumatic rings can lie purchased; while some sufferers are content lo tarry some supposed ' harm in a pockcl Superstitions In regard to rheumatism probably persist because there are many things that, are still unknown about the complaint from a medical standpoint, '[’he treatment of it is still far from satisfactory. Doctors realise this, but no nobody is more fully aware of it limn I In- sufferers themselves. A tendency to rheumatism once established, the pain often returns with every change of weather, showing that the poison is still in the blood awaiting favourable conditions to become active and cause trouble. One filet is known and acknowledged by ail medical writers and that is (tic rapid thinning of the blood when the ;■lieuma lie poison invades U. Building up the tdood is (tie best remedy for rheiimatisrn as the . enriched blood is able to overcome or tli row off the poisons of the disease. For this reason rheumatic sufferers should he interested in the success which Dr Williams' Pink Pills have bad in the treatment of this painful disease. They increase Ihe Mood supply and impart, energy, and sufferers have jfsfived that through a course of them, the .system lias been enabled to throw off tho rheumatic poison. They have also noted that the complaint did not return with the next damn weather. I»r Williams’ Dink Fills are sold by ail dealers, A useful booklet on "Diseases of the Nervous System" will be sent free to any address-
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Southland Times, Issue 17788, 18 July 1916, Page 3
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