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Show WHY STORMY WEATHER C BRINGS RHEUMATISM. The best explanation of win storm days bring depression to man is pre-J pre-J senteri by Dr. Charles 15. Banks of thfl United States health service who tells of the barometer and health Every person capable ol putting two and two together and obtaining the correct answer has been conscious con-scious of feeling out of sorts, as the printer would say, when the clouds bung low and the sun was obscured week of dull weather seis a whole community on edge and tbe mental, moral and physical components of man are, at its close, about fit for the srrap heap. Under such atmospheric atmos-pheric conditions, when prolonged for a number of day- an Englishman admits ad-mits that he feels "seedy" and the American confesses that he is feeling feel-ing "mean," both adjectives relating to a state of mental and bodily dumps. This situation is generally attributed to the lack of sunshine, but that is placing the blame in the wrong direction. The normal atmos phere air exerts on our bodies a definite def-inite dynamic force or physical pres 6ure of 14.7 pounds on every square inch of our bodies, if we live at or near the sea level, and the higher up we 50 this atmospheric pressure diminishes di-minishes until on the heights of the Rockies (t la probably two pounds bst The normal pressure at spa leel i? indicated b the barometer as 30 (inches), and It decreases by an established es-tablished scale as it ascends those mountain heights. .Most persons know that ascents of mountainous pciks, thousands of feet ahoo sea level results in marked physical distress, dis-tress, difficult breathing, general (depression (de-pression at the summits, and in ex- I tremc cases blooding at the nose end even from the lungf . due to this lc6-j lc6-j sencd atmospheric pressure, -lust so I i! happens that when the barometer la low ' tor a io-.fiurnble period, say a drop from 30, the normal gauge, to or below when stormy or dull weai her ensues, we get the analogous effect Imperceptibly, but In nn appreciable appre-ciable degree; for it has happened i hat a definite measure of atmospher ic pressure s released from our bodies and naturally there follows a dislocation of our normal balance. The average adult man sustains on every pleasant clay an atrnosphen pressure of about fourteen tons at 'sen level, when the barometer reads at ;: and a drop of an Inch or more, to L'!t and below practically takes ofi half a ton or more of his load to which he is accustomed. Paradoxic -ally, in.-iearl of feeling lighter and freer man reels lis disturbing depres sing effort on hh tissues He has to become pd.iti-icd 10 this alteration trom normal tensit io one of unusual relaxation, and while it Is slow m Its manifestations, as barometric changes are generally gradual, yet the effect in miniature is like going up i a Rreat height on a mountain ranc,'1 01 course this feeling is neither serious nor fatal but the relaxed condition in unpleasant weather extending over fi number of days makes us feel "out of sorts " While the spell is on tve are in the doldrums and the situation is recognized as ol enough importance by carpful surgeons who weigh ev cry factor, to defer important operations opera-tions which can be positioned, when these unfavorable barometric conditions condi-tions prevail, and the patient needs everv ounce of vitality to pull through. It. is just as well to know these fundamental facts about the Influence! Influ-ence! which affect our physical being so i hat we can estimate that tired'" or "good-for-nothing" feeling which accompanies a speii of dull neather: : to know that it has a definite and : transitory cause outside our hodie? It is really an explanation of the ups and downs of our healthy exist ence Naturally there is no remedy to be prescribed As .Mark Twain said said about the weather we talk a lot about it but we never do an-tbmg an-tbmg to Improve it Rheumatic pains, when ehe harom-1 harom-1 eter drops just before a storm, no doubt ; are caused by this change in atmospher is pressure, which places more work on the heart, lungs and pores and, therefore, brings about a strain which aggravates the disease |