Rheumatic disease and the Australian aborigine.

NOW AND THEN Rheumatic disease and the Australian Aborigine

Objective—To document the frequency and disease phenotype of various rheumatic diseases in the Australian Aborigine. Methods—A comprehensive review was performed of the archaeological, ethnohistorical, and contemporary literature relating to rheumatic diseases in these indigenous people. Results—No evidence was found to suggest that rheumatoid arthritis (RA), ankylosing spondylitis (AS), or gou...

Diffuse panbronchiolitis in an Australian aborigine

Diffuse panbronchiolitis (DPB) is a chronic sino-bronchial disease. It has remained restricted to the Japanese and cases in the West are unusual. We present a patient of Australian aboriginal origin with DPB. The known efficacy of low-dose erythromycin in DPB is again described. Chronic respiratory disease is common in the Australian aboriginal population and DPB should be considered in the dif...

What Is Acute Rheumatic Fever (arf) and Rheumatic Heart Disease (rhd)?

Anderson, K

This paper seeks to explain the shift that took place in the mid-nineteenth century elaboration of a polygenist idea of race. Supplementing existing claims that increasing evidence about the diversity of humankind provided a context for this shift, the focus here is upon British colonial encounters in Australia. It is against the background of what was considered to be a distinctly human separa...

A case of acute rheumatic fever with new criteria, a disease that needs to be considered

Introduction: Acute rheumatic fever is an autoimmune disease that mainly affects the large joints. Early treatment of a throat infection following group A streptococcus prevents of acute rheumatic fever. Given the low prevalence of the disease, especially in a situation where there is excessive use of antibiotics in Iran, this study intends to report a patient with Acute rheumatic fever with mi...