Chronic Rheumatic Joint Disease in General Practice
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CHRONIC RHEUMATIC JOINT DISEASE IN GENERAL PRACTICE.* By PHILIP
Chronic rheumatic joint disease is the greatest single cause of disability in temperate climates and is said to produce more pensionable invalidism than any other condition except cardiovascular disease in old age. It is therefore unfortunate that chronic arthritis, which is so formidable a scourge in this country, should, until recent years, have been relegated to the list of uninteresting and...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1936
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.12.128.211