On some disorders of nutrition related with affections of the nervous system : neurotic dystrophies / by William M. Ord.

  • William Miller Ord
Date:
1885
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Credit: On some disorders of nutrition related with affections of the nervous system : neurotic dystrophies / by William M. Ord. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    for twelve months. She had no signs of gout in the shape of deposits, and her own expression was, that she felt the attack to be really in the nerves. The period was short, and the arthritis disappeared. But the catamenia having since returned with unusual freedom and duration on two occasions, she had each time had the arthritis severely enough to cripple her. The arthritis came on at the end of the periods, the last of which was accompanied by abdominal pain, a circumstance hitherto unknown to her. I am now able to report of this case that the catamenia have ceased, and that the joint-affection is forgotten. I might multiply my citation to a large extent, for the relation is illustrated constantly now that it has once been recognised. Hypothesis of Reflex Causation of Arthritis BY Uterine Irritation.—The argument which was founded upon these cases and others, not now quoted, had the following general bearing : ,that, seeing this frequent co-existence of a certain kind of inflammation of the joints with uterine hyperaemia, seeing also that the joint-inflam- mation increased in intensity in a very marked proportion to increase of the uterine hyperaemia, and that, also, when the signs of uterine hyperaemia ceased the joint-affection passed away, there was reason to regard the one as caused by the other. The joint-affection had in itself no necessary property of permanency. The uterine affection had of a necessity a beginning and an end, and the joint-affection was noticed only during its existence. If, from such considerations, it was fair to infer that the dystrophy of joints was, in some way, brought about by an abnormal condition of the uterus, the intermediate conditions linking the two had next to be sought for. That there was some
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