Differentiation in rheumatic diseases (so called) : read before the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Association, 14th May, 1890 / by Hugh Lane.
- Lane, Hugh.
- Date:
- 1890
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Differentiation in rheumatic diseases (so called) : read before the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Association, 14th May, 1890 / by Hugh Lane. 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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![It will not, I trust, be looked upon as mere extravagance to say that by the increase of careful unremitting investigation into the various kinds of rheumatic diseases, especially with regard to their early and curable stages and the marks by which they may then be recognised, a better and | higher result will inevitably be reached, viz., that i in good time such symptoms and such effects will | no longer be visible, and we shall no longer have : amongst us the crippled frames of which I have | spoken, and the lives of misery which are so t often transmitted to an enfeebled posterity. i This consummation so devoutly to be wished is, , I fervently believe, no mere visionary’s dream ] of the future, but is an actuality almost at hand. It is with such a result in view, and with the hope that our present proceedings may in some small degree contribute to it, that I am to address you on the subject of rheumatic diseases to-night. The object is to endeavour to throw some further light upon the doubts which exist as to what the differences are between the varieties of rheumatic disease so-called. By these we mean the diseases to which the terms chronic rheuma- j](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22365977_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
