How to Use rheumatism in a Sentence

rheumatism

noun

• Patients at the town spa come to treat rheumatism and phlebitis.
  — Bob Morris, Town & Country, 3 May 2018
• Some of the men thought they were being treated for rheumatism or bad stomachs.
  — Deneen L. Brown, Washington Post, 16 May 2017
• Some believe the bones, ground into a powder, can cure rheumatism and arthritis.
  — National Geographic, 29 Sep. 2016
• When rheumatism forced him to seek treatment in Seattle, best wishes were addressed to Young Viking.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Dec. 2020
• Down from the mountains, fur-trapping explorer Jim Bridger retired with his goiter and rheumatism in his farmhouse on the other side of the crick.
  — Darryl Levings, kansascity, 18 July 2017
• That paper suggests the Amazonians used the bite to treat rheumatism for centuries.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 14 July 2022
• One member, Yuri Yudin, turned back on January 27 because his rheumatism had flared up, and the knee and joint pain was too severe to continue.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 31 Mar. 2022
• Tiger-bone wine is believed to cure rheumatism, weakness, or paralysis.
  — Jenni Marsh, CNN, 15 Aug. 2020
• The resurgence in demand for tiger bone wine in particular, which is believed to cure rheumatism and impotence, has helped drive the success of these farms.
  — National Geographic, 1 Feb. 2016
• The slow-growing shrub has medicinal properties — its root can be used to treat rheumatism — and is used in dyes, varnish, lipstick and incense.
  — Tonya Alanez, Sun-Sentinel.com, 17 Aug. 2017
• China has banned its sale since 1993; and demand for its use in traditional Chinese medicine (for fevers, rheumatism and gout) has fallen.
  — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2019
• Haygarth pitted these rods against sham, wooden Perkins tractors that looked just the same as the 5-guinea ones on sale, and found that 4 of 5 patients with rheumatism reported that their pain improved.
  — Rosie Mestel, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2021
• The French, who once owned the territory, harvested the roots of the blue-flowered chicory plant to make teas and medicines to treat jaundice, liver enlargement gout, and rheumatism.
  — Adele Jackson-Gibson, Good Housekeeping, 3 Feb. 2020
• His father suffered from rheumatism but salicylic acid caused him to vomit.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 10 Aug. 2017
• One woman brought her son, who suffered from a chronic illness that doctors in the region hadn’t been able to identify; Shikankov quickly diagnosed the boy’s rheumatism.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2020
• The vegetable’s diuretic effects come from the amino acid Asparagine, and has been used to treat swelling, rheumatism, and premenstrual water retention.
  — Stephanie Feuer, Good Housekeeping, 5 Sep. 2017
• Tiger bones are coveted in Asia, especially China, for making tiger-bone wine, a status symbol thought to convey strength, or as a paste used to treat ailments such as rheumatism and back pain.
  — Nichole Sobecki, National Geographic, 21 Nov. 2019
• It has also been traditionally used in Ayurvedic medicine to treat a range of health issues like breathing problems, rheumatism, serious pain, and fatigue.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 24 Sep. 2018
• Arsenic has been used medicinally in Eastern and Western medicine for almost 2,500 years for a variety of conditions, from rheumatism to syphilis.
  — New York Times, 17 Mar. 2020
• Because of his war experiences, Metcalf became so crippled with rheumatism that his colleagues had to carry him upstairs to the county courtroom.
  — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• The disease is mostly a relic of the past in rich and middle-income countries, where pediatricians quickly treat strep throat and rheumatic fever in children, which causes the joint pain once called childhood rheumatism.
  — Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times, 29 May 2017
• If inhaled, the organisms could end up in the lungs and cause a pneumonia called, variously, coccidioidomycosis or desert rheumatism or Valley fever.
  — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 2 Nov. 2022
• Even so, some practitioners still use rhino horn to treat ailments including fever, rheumatism and gout, while applying tiger-bone products to relieve joint pains and boost male virility.
  — Chun Han Wong, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2018
• Rhino horn is traditionally used to treat ailments including fever, rheumatism and gout, and tiger-bone products have been used for relieving joint pains and boosting male virility.
  — Chun Han Wong, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2018
• Patients suffering from tuberculosis, rheumatism and gout flocked to the property’s three turn-of-the-20th-century soaking pools, surrounded by rocks and palm trees.
  — Mickey Rapkin, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2021
• Jackson, who survived diseases like smallpox, malaria, dysentery, rheumatism and dropsy and endured physical disability most of his adult life after being shot in the chest during a duel, was just shy of Mr. Trump in stature, standing 6-foot-1.
  — Peter Baker, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2017
• Typically dried, ground into powder, and put into pills, pangolin scales are used in a range of traditional Chinese remedies, from treatments to help mothers with lactation to relief for arthritis and rheumatism.
  — Paul Hilton, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
• In particular, citizens of Germany and Britain used cod liver oil to treat rickets, rheumatism, gout and tuberculosis during the 18th century.
  — Susan Scutti, CNN, 1 Mar. 2018
• His doctors lied, describing Cleveland’s problem as rheumatism and two badly ulcerated teeth.
  — David Steinberg, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2018
• Not only does the infrared heat penetrate 2.5 inches into the skin to reach muscles and joints, but the special heat system also promotes detoxification, immune system support, and relief from arthritis, rheumatism, and fibromyalgia.
  — Hillary Maglin, Travel + Leisure, 25 June 2020

Last Updated: 4 Aug 2024