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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    bably special nerve fibres (trophic) or the vaso- motor nerves. In support of this it is seen that those muscles which have the most work to perform, which have been the most constantly brought into action, are those mostly affected in this disease (Fig. 5). If the result of the reflexes were more satis- factory than they are, possibly very much more light would be thrown upon this obscure disease. Our observations do not point to, and we cannot bear out the statement made of the increase of the reflexes in rheumatoid arthritis. We are ready to admit that we have found them in- creased in chronic rheumatic arthritis, but in so far as our researches have gone we must say that in rheumatoid arthritis the balance is decidedly in favour of diminished tendon reflex, in inverse proportion to the presence and intensity of the neural symptoms. The Treatment of Chronic Rheumatoid Arthritis. The treatment of chronic rheumatoid arthritis has at least this satisfaction about it, viz.—it