Dr. Evans' How to keep well; (1917) (14583820159)

Identifier: drevanshowtokee00evan (find matches)

Title: Dr. Evans' How to keep well;

Year: 1917 (1910s)

Authors: Evans, William Augustus, 1865- (from old catalog)

Subjects: Medicine, Popular Hygiene Sanitation

Publisher: New York, Pub. for Sears, Roebuck and co. by D. Appleton and company

Contributing Library: The Library of Congress

Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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tion in the muscles. However fractures cause but a small part of the crippling one sees.There are joints stiffened and gnarled by rheumatism, gout, rheumatoidarthritis, and by gonococcal infections. There are also flabby and weakened muscles. They may result frominfantile paralysis, locomotor ataxia and other forms of paralysis and disuse.These conditions distort the human machinery, getting it out of balance. I am all crippled up with rheumatism/ is an expression as familiar as MASSAGE A CURATIVE AID 1029 a household word. Why are you so? The reason is to be found usually inthe fact that you have not completed the treatment. A man comes down with rheumatism: he sends for a physician; thephysician prescribes for him and he gets better. His pain subsides and hegoes back to work. That is not enough. The use of the salicylates will relieve the pain allright; they make work more bearable: they may limit the damage which theinfection otherwise would have done but they do not effect a cure.

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V Fig. 417.—Exercise for All Muscles, Especially for Muscles of Abdominal Wall. In acute rheumatism the joint is infected. The germ which causes therheumatism gets into the blood stream through some part of the body suchas the tonsils. In the treatment of the disease, then, regard should be had not onlyfor the relief of pain but for rinding the port of entry of the germ whichcauses it and putting and keeping it in order. Rheumatism, though, does more than cause pain. Being an infectionit may be of sufficient degree to cause the bones of the joint to grow togetherresulting in stiffness. If it does not reach this degree of damage it causesinjury to delicate and important structures of the joint. As the result of the injury there may be a creaking, popping soundbesides more or less pain when using the joint in after years. Treatment of rheumatism then should have in view not only relief ofpai?i and the control of the gateway of infection but the correction of damagedone to structures t

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