A dissertation on osteo-arthritis / by W. H. Russell Forsbrook.

  • Forsbrook, William Henry Russell.
Date:
1893
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    convent of Marienthon in Pomerania (Vir- chow) also in a skeleton found in a Roman sarcophagus in Smithfield by Dr. Norman Moore and lastly, the skeleton of the Norse Viking found buried in his warship in the neighbourhood of Christiana Fjord showed unmistakable evidence of this disease. Sydenham,^ in 1683, mentioned the condition as a modification of rheumatism. He spoke of the tortures experienced by patients im- properly treated ; of its recurring paroxysms, like gout; and of the general crippling and nodosity of the joints of the fingers caused by it. The subject was also referred to by Musgrave^ in 1703, by Haller^ in 1764, and by De Sauvages^ in 1768; and John Hunter was well acquainted with its anatomical characters, but it was not till 1800 that the distinctive features of osteo-arthritis were first recognised. In that year Landre Beauvais,^ to whom Dr. A. E. Garrod assigns the post of honour as having been the first to differentiate this affec- tion under the name of goutte asthenique primitive,” published his thesis in which he showed that of two classes of cases which ^ “ Archiv.,” i86g, xlvri., p. 298. 2 “ Path. Soc. Trans.,” 1883, xxxiv., p. 226. 3 “ Opera,” Sec. vi., cap. v. 4 “ De Arthritide Symptomatica,” p. 24. ® “ Elementa Physiologica,” vi., p. g. ® “ Nosolgia Methodica,” class vii., ordo i. “ These de Paris.”
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