CHRONIC ARTICULAR RHEUMATISM AND ARTHRITIS DEFORMANS.

Arthritis Deformans

Dr. Jones has in this volume, with the sub-title, comprising " Rheumatoid Arthritis, Osteo-arthritis, and Spondylitis Deformans," given a most excellent epitome of present-day knowledge of the diseases of the rheumatoid class. Agreeing with most modern workers, he makes a sharp distinction between the two' diseases, rheumatoid arthritis and osteo-arthritis, nor does he believe that the former m...

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)

Complement Fixation Tests in Chronic Infective Deforming Arthritis and Arthritis Deformans

1. From a comparison of the results with arthritis deformans recorded in tables III, IV, and VI, and with the control cases recorded in table VII, one is justified in concluding that Streptococcus viridans is an infectious agent and excites the production of a complement-fixing substance (fixateur) in the organism in cases of arthritis deformans, and, therefore, Streptococcus viridans is the pr...

Arthritis and Rheumatism

T IS RECOGNIZED that tests for rheumaI toid factors are less often positive in juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) than in the adult form of the disease. The explanation for this discrepancy is not completely clear. Those children who develop seropositivity may constitute a separate group of patients from the standpoint of diagnosis or prognosis. Ideally, to ascertain this, children with arthri...