Race, Rheumatism and Growing Pains.

A survey of the literature on diseases of children reveals the fact that there is a widely-held opinion that children of one type are more prone than those of other types to rheumatism in its various forms. The description of the incriminated type, however, varies so much with different writers as to make correlation difficult. Further, but few writers quote positive evidence in support of their opinions. Three different types are described and may be thus summarized:-