THE MYSTERY OF RHEUMATISM.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 16619, 26 August 1918, Page 9

THE MYSTERY OF RHEUMATISM.

To a certain degree there is a good deal of mystery about the causes of rheumatism. In consequence, the treatment of the complaint is unsatisfactory. Medical men differ a great deal in their views, with the result that the complaint is treated in a variety of ways.

A tendency to rheumatism once establshed, the acute pains are liable to return with every spell of bad weather, showing that the poison is Efßl in the blood, awaiting favourable conditions to become active and cause trouble.

One fact is known and acknowledged by all medical writers, and this is that the blood is rapidly thinned when the rheumatic poison invades it. Building up the blood by means of the wellknown Dr. "Williams' Pink Pills is the, best remedy for rheumatism, as thei. blood so enriched is able to overcome or throw off the poisons of the disorder " Lumbago is, of course, rheumatism in the muscles of the back and Joins, and should be treated similarly. Headers will no doubt be interested to learn of the success which Dr. Wil-' liams' Pink Pills for Pale People have-: had in the treament of rheumatism: in its various forms. At the first! twinge, obtain a box of these pillsfrora your dealer (remember that substitutes arc useless). „..„- , Your own dealer sells Dr. Williams Pink Pills. Send to-day to the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brtx 845, G.P.0.. Wellington, for the book, "Diseases of the hlood." It is free.