Juvenile Rheumatism in London

Juvenile Rheumatism in London.

FOR the purpose of this paper it is to be understood that the term " juvenile rheumatism " refers to rheumatic disease occurring in children under the age of sixteen. This definition is convenient rather than scientific. It is convenient clinically, in that by far the greater number of initial attacks occur before the age of sixteen, and it has the further practical convenience that up to this ...

A study of the sedimentation rate in juvenile rheumatism.

In a previous communication3 a simple method of estimating the sedimentation rate (S.R.) was described which had the great advantage of requiring only a finger prick. Close agreement between the degree of rheumatic activity and the height of the sedimentation rate was demonstrated. This has been confirmed by Bach and Gray Hill', Struthers and Bacal6, Perry4 and others. In this paper it is propo...

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...