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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    CHAPTEE V. Eheumatic Arthritis. After the foregoing, it will be readily ob- served that great care has been taken to repre- sent chronic rheumatoid arthritis as a disease quite distinct from rheumatic arthritis. Al- though they are separated by positive and incontestable features, these features, to the clinical observer, might at first sight present very forcible impressions of what he sees in a case of rheumatoid arthritis. With the knowledge with which we are at present acquainted, it does not seem too much to lay down a doctrine which would go to show the distinct differences existing between them. Eheumatoid arthritis has been shown to be a disease having its origin quite independent of any rheumatic diathesis or tendency to it. It is now proposed to assert, in the first place, that rheumatic arthritis should not be mixed up or