Paper on the treatment of chronic rheumatoid arthritis : read before the Yorkshire Branch of the British Medical Association, at Bradford, on the sixteenth of June, 1880 / by J. Fletcher Little.

  • Little, J. Fletcher.
Date:
1880
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Credit: Paper on the treatment of chronic rheumatoid arthritis : read before the Yorkshire Branch of the British Medical Association, at Bradford, on the sixteenth of June, 1880 / by J. Fletcher Little. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    when the weather permitted to call on friends in the neighbourhood, and ivas able to go up and down stairs without assistance. I heard from Dr. Merriman in March last, and he reported to me steady and continued improvement. Mrs. A. is now at Ben Rhydding for a few weeks’ stay, and I am happy to be able to state that the cure appears to be a permanent one. The joints are supple, there is no pain, and the general health has so much improved that life is now a pleasure instead of a burden. The second case is that of Mrs. B •, a patient of Dr. Brady’s, of Sunderland, aged 35 years. The illness began before marriage with pain and swelling in the ancle joints. She suffered severely during’ her whole married life, especially since the birth of her first child fourteen years ago. The symptoms became still more aggravated in 1873, after the birth of her last child, when the right arm became shrunken and completely helpless, so that she was unable to dress herself, and could not wTalk without the aid of a stick. In 1875 she went to Montreal, and whilst there suffered from acute attacks of what appears to have been metastatic gout, and had to return to England in consequence. Since her return to England, she has not suffered from any acute inflammatory attacks, but the hands and feet have become sadly deformed, and at times almost useless.
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