Classification of Rheumatism

Classification of Rheumatism.

A classification may be either artificial or natural. The first serves some immediate practical purpose. Thus I could classify rheumatic diseases by arrangi1ig them in alphabetical order, which might be useful for indexing and reference. But it is clear that in any artificial classification the things grouped together are likely to have very few properties in common; diseases whose names begin ...

Rheumatism Association Criteria for the Classification of Rheumatoid Arthritis

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is among the most common forms of chronic inflammatory arthritis. RA affects about 1% of adults, and it is two to three times more prevalent in women than in men. RA may begin as early as infancy, but onset usually occurs in the fifth or sixth decade. There are no specific laboratory tests for RA; diagnosis depends on a constellation of signs and symptoms that can be s...

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...