Acute Articular Rheumatism

Psychosomatic non-articular rheumatism.

It seems now to be fairly widely agreed that emotional factors are relevant to the study of rheumatism, and particularly of non-articular rheumatism or fibrositis. The Horder Report (1941) stated that " Worry, anxiety, mental shock, can be often recognized as promotive of rheumatic disease ". The relationship is perhaps more often expressed as a matter of differential diagnosis between muscular...

Non-Articular Rheumatism (Fibrositis)

Acute Rheumatism.

Damp, chill, and exposure have always been considered prime factors in rheumatic fever. The conditions of modern war-the trench or fox-hole filled with water, icy exposure, sleeping in wet clothing, and the crowded dug-out or shelter-seem to make an environment favourable to rheumatic fever, and one might expect it to be outstanding among those diseases which crowd in the train of war. Yet it f...

[Decline of acute rheumatism].

The purpose of this communication is to present the statistics of acute rheumatism in school children as they have appeared in the records of the local rheumatism service in one large city (Cardiff) during the 20-year period 1931-50. The particular circumstance which gives point to the study is the wellknown change which community experience of the disease has undergone in recent times: a progr...

Abdominal Symptoms in Acute Rheumatism.

The object of this paper is to record a few cases which have seemed interesting in view of the recent literature, mainly from foreign observers, on the subject of abdominal manifestations of acute rheumatism; at the same time attempting to review briefly the literature on the subject. In recent treatises on inedicine, no matter how exhaustive, there is little note of any digestive or peritoneal...