ARTICULAR RHEUMATISM.

Psychosomatic non-articular rheumatism.

It seems now to be fairly widely agreed that emotional factors are relevant to the study of rheumatism, and particularly of non-articular rheumatism or fibrositis. The Horder Report (1941) stated that " Worry, anxiety, mental shock, can be often recognized as promotive of rheumatic disease ". The relationship is perhaps more often expressed as a matter of differential diagnosis between muscular...

Non-Articular Rheumatism (Fibrositis)

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...