Volume 1

Practical remarks on gout, rheumatic fever and chronic rheumatism of the joints : being the substance of the Croonian lectures for the present year, delivered at the College of Physicians / by Robert Bentley Todd.

  • Robert Bentley Todd
Date:
1843
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    Society. Cruveilhier has also described and delineated this disease in various joints, under the appellation “Usere des Cartilages.” It is evidently the same disease of which Haygarth has given the clinica] history, by the name of “Nodosity of the Joints.” The disease is apt to show itself in early life, as well as at the most advanced periods. I am not aware of any cases in which it occurred at an earlier age than twenty, and in the instances in which I have known it at. this early age, the subjects of the disease were women; doubtless, however, its foundation may be laid at an earlier period of life. From thirty- five onwards, the disease is by no means un- common, occurring chiefly among the labouring poor, who are more exposed to the causes of rheumatic affections than the higher classes. It is not very frequently met with in our hospitals; for the disease is so chronic, that the patients cannot be kept in long enough to benefit them; but several examples may be seen in every work-house, those receptacles of the poor under all kinds of affliction, and at all ages. As far as my experience enables me to judge, I should say that there is more of the disease in Ireland (where its causes are more rife) than in Eng- land. I know nothing of it in Scotland. 12