23. Cold Baths in Cerebral Rheumatism

A Case of Cerebral Rheumatism

" Moussun," a tolerably strong lad, aged 16, was brought into hospital on the 31st January last. On admission he presented the following symptoms :?He lay on his left side, the arms and legs spasmodically flexed?the left more than the right, and the hands resting on the shoulders. The limbs could be extended by the application of some force, but they at once resumed their flexed position. If th...

The cold-reaction test for peripheral vasomotor disturbances in rheumatism.

The experiments to be described have been carried out on patients suffering from various forms of rheumatism, but mostly from rheumatoid arthritis, at the Harrogate Royal Bath Hospital. The test has also been used in cases of incipient Raynaud's and other arterial diseases of the extremities, the results of which may form the subject of another paper. Benatt and Taylor (1940) made use of the co...

Rheumatism

IT is natural that a (lisease of the social and econiomic importance of rheumatism should ocCIpy a considerable place in medical literature. Nevertheless, until the last few nears, little of importanice has been adide(d to ourikniowle(dge of this crippling group of dliseases. Significant advances in treatmenit, a closer stu(dy of the composition of synovial fluii(d and(l of the factors wvhich i...

Rheumatism

Rheumatism

To the Editor of " The Indian Medical Gazette." Sir-I shall feel obliged if you will give the following a place in your paper in reply to Dr. Clarke's criticism of my contribution in Rheumatism in August number I was indeed not very particular about the'nomenclature and took it as it was; and I considered it as a certain manifestation attended with pain, incapabilities with certa n tissue chang...