| Show HEALTH fu full ill cooperation of medical experts needed to find rheumatism causes cause S ity by dr tomes gimnes W barton ATER aseen TER a physician has seen a great many cases of rheumatism or arthritis that resisted all other attempts at cure clear up in a few weeks after the removal of infected teeth and tonsils ton sils he is na naturally going to first examine the tonsils and have an xray X ray of the teeth before looking elsewhere for a cause of rheumatism or arthritis that many innocent teeth and tonsils have been removed in an effort to cure rheumatism is likely true but this is the case with every new dincov ery or forward step in medicine enthusiasm often carried research workers too tar far that there are other causes tor for rheumatism than infection of teeth tonsils ton sils gall bladder sinus or other part is true food climate surroundings may dr barton all be factors in causing rheumatism or aggravating the symptoms however as in all problems in medicine the commonest causes are first sought infection probable cause drs E farlov and 0 brinch copenhagen pen hagen in an extract reprinted in the journal of the american medical association state that infection teeth tonsils or other parts is a highly probable cause of diseases of the joints their experiments were mostly with old or chronic cases of rheumatism of a number of joints they believe that a considerable part of the large number of persons with more than one ona joint affected can be helped by finding and removing the infection before the rheumatism has done severe damage to the joint and before a second infection from the first infection has been caused in the nodes or groups of cells in the lymph system As the lymph system is part of the blood system it can be readily seen how this ise secondary cof idary infection can start trouble in still further joints of the body drs farlov and brinch state that intensive operation cooperation co is called tor for on the part of general practitioners practitioner rs dentists ea ear r nose and throat specialists sper cia lists xray X ray specialists and laboratory experts 0 bell service Ser ric |
