CUTANEOUS ADMINISTRATION OF SALICYLATES IN RHEUMATISM, GOUT, ETC.

The Treatment of Acute Rheumatism by the Salicylates

cause of therapeutics, by eliciting through discussion the opinions and conclusions of those who have had the largest experience of the salicylates in the treatment of acute rheumatism. All the speakers agree that the fever and the jointaffection are alleviated by the administration of the salicylates, and that so far this method is superior to other plans of treatment. On the question of relap...

Memoranda on Carbonate of Lithia in Acute Rheumatism Associated with Scarlatina, and in Urticaria; Etc.

2015 Gout Classification Criteria: An American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism Collaborative Initiative

OBJECTIVE Existing criteria for the classification of gout have suboptimal sensitivity and/or specificity, and were developed at a time when advanced imaging was not available. The current effort was undertaken to develop new classification criteria for gout. METHODS An international group of investigators, supported by the American College of Rheumatology and the European League Against Rheu...

Miliarial gout: a rare presentation of extensive cutaneous tophi.

Gout is a systemic disorder characterized by hyperuricemia and recurrent arthritis, most involvement of ankles, midfoot joint and first metatarsophalangeal joint, with monosodium urate crystals deposition in synovial fluid and other tissues. We present a case of 53-year-old male, who had several nontender, white-yellow papules and plaques over his elbows, knees and arms with chalk-like substanc...

Effect of salicylates in urticaria.

performance was so deficient as to suggest a specific developmental failure. Fourteen of these children were matched for age, sex, handedness, verbal I.Q., and home and school background with an equal number of children drawn from the same sample who had shown no evidence of selective visuo-motor impairment. Both groups were followed up for a three-year period. The children with visuo-motor def...