RHEUMATISM.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIX, Issue IV, 26 July 1902, Page 241

RHEUMATISM.

ITS CAUSE AND CURE. i (By a Medical Contributor.) It is one of the most curious facts in medical science that such a common disease as rheumatism should have been misunderstood by doctors for so long a time. The old idea was that rheumatism was simply a local disease of the joints and muscles, caused by cold or damp, and requiring for its treatment hot cloths, liniments and outward applications. All doctors to-day, however, accept the teaching of recent science that rheumatism is really a deep-seated disease of the blood, which can be cured only by cleansing and enriching the blood-supply. Damp weather and exposure to cold do not cause rheumatism—they only provoke an attack. Liniments and embrocations do not cure rheumatism—they only relieve the pain for a time. The only way to send your rheumatic pains into banishment for life is to drive all impurities out of your blood witli Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People. This little blood-building and nerve-toning remedy is an unfailing cure for rheumatism, sciatica, lumbago, neuralgia and similar ailments. This has been proved positively by the testimony of hundreds of men and women in this very col-ony-—both in the North and South Islands.

Air. John Allemann, for instance, who has lived for a quarter of a century at Inglewood, in the Taranaki district, tells his experience in a way that does not leave any room for doubt. “Before I settled here,” said Afr Allemann, “I was what you might call a soldier of fortune, and I met with many a hardship on the different goldfields. I was not greatly astonished, therefore, when 1 found myself, at sixty years of age, a victim to rheumatism. Agonising, gnawingj

pains came in my neck, arms, back and legs. Aly museles were so contracted that I could hardly move. I lost many a night’s sleep from the pain, anil my life for the next eight’ years was a miserable one. All sorts of preparations were rubbed into me, but they could not rid me of the pain. 1 was under the treatment of different doctors, but the disease seemed to be part of me, and no matter what medicines I took it would not shift.”

The hot springs of Rotorua were then mentioned,and Air Allemann said that as a last resource his medical adviser ordered him to try them. '‘They gave me temporary relief,” he continued, “but the aches and pains soon came back as bad as ever. Then an Inglewood storekeeper persuaded me to try Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. After taking them for a few days I felt better. A week later the rheumatism left my neck, and as I continued using this remedy the pains lessened elsewhere. Several more boxfuls cured me. My muscles lost their contraction, and became pliable once more. Since then I have been a very active man, busy with all kinds of work here on my farm.”

Rheumatism, therefore, can be cured quickly and permanently by the prescription of the famous Scotch graduate of the Edinburgh University. This wonderful remedy can be obtained from most dealers, and the Dr. Williams medicine company', Wellington, at three shillings a box, or six boxes for sixteen and six, post, free. They cure rheumatism in a

scientific way—by striking at the very foundation of the disease. They root it out for good instead of driving away the pains for a few days. Alore than that, they cure at the same time anaemia, indigestion, nervousness and neuralgia, spring from the same cause as rheumatism, and which often accompany it. When these little pills have cured, hundreds of your neighbours, and thousands of thankful people in other countries, they will cure you—there is no reason in the world why they shouldn't.