Show DAILY HEALTH SERVICE SERVICE- 1 1 Rheumatic Ills on on Increase se as i 1 t Science S Fails C to Jo Find S Remedy r J a i. i 1 I By DR MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical l Association and nd of Hygia Hy- Hy g 9 gia il the th h He Health Magazine Chronic inflammation of the Joints has been found in the skeletons of reptiles that lived JIved long n before thedas theda's the days das of orman man manThe The tissue of ot the cave bear and saber toothed d tiger show the marks of this infection It was Tas as prevalent prevalent preva Pre lent in th the prehistoric dwellers of or upper Egypt as among the first inhabitants in inhabitants in in- habitants of or Great Britain BrIt It represents today one of ot the most serious of ot the complaints that attack human beings beings' and nd which science cJ o once ence c Is as yet ct resisting with but Indifferent In Indifferent In- In different success The number of ot deaths attributed to rheumatic diseases diseases diseases dis dis- dis- dis eases and their complications rises steadily Gout G ut fora for a aw while w an apparently declining disease b begins to show an increased rate in hi recent years In a review of ot th the tho subject for tho the ministry of ot health in Great Britain Dr J. J Allison Amson Glov Glover r emphasizes the importance of of the condition I London hospitals pointing l as many a na M 40 per c cent nt of ot patient seen seen- In watering places are lIu suffers ret cra from front this chronic form torm of dis 1 order In a. a great American T p cent cont of ot tho the patients treated or nr A sufferers from chr chronic arthritis as were also 7 per cent of the patient j In ift a municipal hospital in Berlin Eleven per cent of at tho the patients ro ro- ported b by Boet Boston n hospitals Js as ai as 1 losing from c chronic ana and incurable dl diseases were wore tJ tho to o victims vIctim of chr nl l arthritis whereas 1 19 10 per cent l had 1 heart dl disease ease which i is Js not 4 a a. related condition In tho the tho attempt attempt to reach the 1 of ot tho tire chronic rheumatic com com- plaints It h has t been found th that they thoy tend to attack families and ther there se seems seems' ms' ms tobo to bD that the tho th I constitution of ot th the the- human buman bebi being in ii related to his sus susceptibility epu to thu this disorder Several investigators have found that 58 53 per pcr cent o of the thc patients nr j members of ot rheumatic families Women seem to be much more BUS BUS- to the disease than d do men tho the various arlous authorities finding the tha incidence e in women some three t tc six times that in men In addition to the family influx ceo ece these is ls tho associated as effect of oZ l' l lIn occupation Thus ono one investigator has pointed ted out that th the tho occupation indicates the joints that will wm be bein beia in- in Women omen doing sewing and anti knitting at affected in tho the fingers L Painters and workers with lead f fe seem m to be particularly susceptible la i ito to tho the disease ase and chill and arid e ex exposure Cr- Cr are arc as associated with tl tl I frequency of at its occurrence among t metal workers and aEd th th per personnel onnel of or railway locomotive Dr Glover Glover- is inclined to size dize particularly Jarly th the tho importance of l prevention of or In dw dwell Ings and the tiu Importance of or free clr 4 I of air and anel of ot sunlight in the thi prevention of or arthritis Much his has b been n said of ot tb the r tIn thi of or removing foci of or intec Lion tion in the tho teeth and tonsils as al well as elsewhere about the body In hi hithe 1 the 1110 attack on arthritis Treatment without such removal does not i in 11 any way control the condition forthe for tor the simple reason that tho the focus continues contInues' to teed feed the inCe infectious n ma a. a to the blood bl od and by the blood bl o to the joints so 50 that new i I are aro sot st up J |