A treatise on rheumatic gout, or chronic rheumatic arthritis of all the joints / by Robert Adams.

  • Adams, Robert
Date:
1873
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    or morbid specimen, and thereby, perhaps, prove the means of preventing errors. Indeed, it must be confessed that heretofore the diagnosis of this disease, even as to the anatomical characters of it, has been placed on most uncertain foundations, as may appear by referring to nume- rous cases contained in this volume. To show that such mistakes have not been confined to Great Britain, we may refer to Cruveilhier, who says, That as bony vegetations form around the articu- lar surfaces as a result of this disease, and as the heads of the bones become depressed, as it were crushed down and deformed, any one unacquainted with the disease would be tempted to believe the bones had been fractured. Indeed, he adds, he has in his experience known such mistakes to have occurred many times in cases in which the hip and shoulder-joint have been the seat of these organic lesions. This author further, as a clinical physician, laments how little this disease was known, and adds that he felt persuaded that it was habitually con- founded with gout, rheumatism, and even white swelling, and that it was often combated by very active treatment, the inutility of which he believed to be the least of the evils attending it.* * Anatomie Pathologique. Par J. Cruveilhier. Livraison ix. page 10.
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