Word: rheumatiz
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...external use against muscle aches and the "rheumatiz," there were liniments galore. Merchant's Gargling Oil, not to be gargled, was one. Like Pratt's Healing Ointment, it was "for Man and Beast." Clark Stanley's Snake Oil Liniment was promoted by the slaughter of hundreds of rattlesnakes at the Chicago World's Fair, but contained no rattlesnake oil. "Used external only," it was for "rheumatism, neuralgia, sciatica, lame back, lumbago, contracted muscles, frost bites, chill blains, bruises, and sore throat...
...seems possible. Except for its blatant treatment of sex, Mandingo would itself seem an anachronism, written in 1832 as well as taking place then. The scene is an Alabama plantation, with Franchot Tone as an aging, tippling, crotchety slave breeder and seller. Among his slaves are drunkards, onetime bedmates, "rheumatiz boys," and three Mandingos (so named for their ancestral African tribe), who to preserve their pure blood must practice incest. Among his family are a son who loathes his wife and lives openly with a slave girl, and a lewd, liquored-up daughter-in-law (Brooke Hayward) who, from having...
Sophisticated Arthritis.' In the U.S. there are 11 million people who have one form or another of the arthritis group of diseases-what grandma called her "rheumatiz," the genteel called rheumatism, and the pseudo-sophisticated now call arthritis. Each year, more than 300,000 people are made temporarily unemployable for varying periods by rheumatic diseases, and many of them become rheumatic invalids...
...jury declared, was mistress of her schoolhouse and even if Abe Conklin was the only truant officer Sandy Field could get, still he was the truant officer and his wife could deliver his messages on days when, like last week, he had a cold or a touch of "the rheumatiz...
...Yaas, he orter n't ter be out alone, sech a night ez this. But the widder's laid up with rheumatiz, I reckon. That's the Widder Hannam's child, sir." And he eyed the man somewhat curiously, evidently awaiting some confidence in return...
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