Psychogenic Rheumatism: Its Differentiation from True Rheumatic Disease *Abstract of an address to the Bath, Bristol and Somerset Branch of the B.M.A., at Bath, October 19th, 1948, and Postgraduate Medicine, 1947, I, VI.
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Two of the many conditions commonly called " rheumatism" are actual joint diseases?(I) osteo-arthritis, a nuisance but not a calamity, and (2) rheumatoid arthritis, the most crippling of all. In two others there is no joint disease: (3) primary fibrositis, a periarticular or intramuscular condition producing aching and stiffness, and (4) " psychogenic rheumatism "?a psychoneurosis affecting the musculo-skeletal system and sometimes confounded with one of the others.
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Ronald Grey Gordon
Colony. He was elected F.R.C.P. (Edinburgh) in 1926 and was Morison Lecturer in 1947: he was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, Fellow and ex President of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, twice Chairman of the Bath Division, and in 1947, President of the Bath, Bristol and Somerset Branch of the B.M.A. In 1929 he was elected to the Council of the B.M.A. and shortly after this beca...
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