The rheumatic diseases (so called) with original suggestions for more clearly defining them / by Hugh Lane and Charles T. Griffiths.

  • Lane, Hugh.
Date:
1890
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Credit: The rheumatic diseases (so called) with original suggestions for more clearly defining them / by Hugh Lane and Charles T. Griffiths. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To RESUME Section A. The cases which come to us under section A present themselves at any age, ranging from about ten years up to forty; above that age they are not so frequently seen, and after sixty seldom or never. A large proportion of these are young adults. They complain principally of neuralgic pain; the joints are not frequently enlarged, but the patient complains of pain, although without much ocular manifestation of it, and very often without any abnormal appearance in the joint at all. Eut in those a little more advanced in age (the previous history being the same, viz., an acute attack), the joints appear to be more frequently involved, in so far as stiffness and restricted movement go, possibly going on now to Avhat we shall presently define as chronic rheumatic arthritis. In these we notice the reverse of what obtains in younger patients, viz., less neuralgia and more arthralgia. The determination of the part affected seems to be regulated by the patient's occupation, in this respect resembling rheumatoid arthritis, but
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