Differentiation in rheumatic diseases (so-called) : based upon communications read before the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Association, 1892 Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Association 14th May 1890 and reprinted from the Lancet, October 1891 / by Hugh Lane.
- Lane, Hugh.
- Date:
- 1892
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Credit: Differentiation in rheumatic diseases (so-called) : based upon communications read before the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Association, 1892 Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Association 14th May 1890 and reprinted from the Lancet, October 1891 / by Hugh Lane. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![from an attack of acute rheumatism, are left with tender and painful, but not swollen joints, or with constant neuralgic jDains, which, not giving rise to much annoyance or inconvenience during the day, become worse, sometimes almost unbearable, at night, es]3ecially in bed. These are the cases which, happening in youth, will sometimes become completely cured by an average course of thermal water treatment. I say an average course, for, beneficial though the system of bathing proves, yet for the young or those in early adult life, the atmospheric condition of Bath is not one which can be recommended for a longer time than four to six weeks. PatieBts But for those in advanced life, where we see vanced the form of senile rheumatism, the climate seems well adapted, and the stay need not be hurried over ; yet in the old a limited number of baths is desirable. Baths only in the young, baths combined with medicines in the old, is the summary of treatment which I think the most rational. I feel in dismissing the subject—the treatment of chronic rheumatic diseases—](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21290313_0110.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
