CLINICAL NOTES ON RHEUMATISM

Notes on Clinical Method

Clinical Notes on Cancer

irrefragable pathological proof in its support. If it is inflammatory oedema, then it is not enlargement of the head and neck of the humerus ; and if it is bony enlargement, then it is cancerous and will not disappear after operation. But hear what he says in the next sentence:?"It would seem to be the first manifestations of that implication of the osseous system which becomes so painfully evi...

Palindromic rheumatism. Clinical and serum complement study.

A review of 39 patients diagnosed as suffering from palindromic rheumatism showed that 17 cases had evolved into typical rheumatoid arthritis (RA), while 22 had remained palindromic. The pattern of palindromic attacks in the two groups gave no grounds for regarding palindromic rheumatism as a separate condition from RA with palindromic onset. At the first attendance minor clinical or radiologic...

Palindromic rheumatism. Clinical and immunological studies.

Hench and Rosenberg (1944) described 34 patients with recurring episodes of arthritis and periarthritis usually lasting less than a week and named by them 'palindromio rheumatism'. The features they emphasized may be summarized as follows: (1) Recurrent attacks ofjoint pain and swelling at variable and irregular intervals lasting a few hours or a few days. (2) Any joint affected but especially ...

Dr. Maclagan on Rheumatism

really such a thing at all as rheumatism in the tropics, or, for that matter, as near the tropics as 25? 25' N. I think that this is a point of considerable importance, as a very large number of cases come under notice complaining of rheumatism, if Europeans, or called rheumatism if the patient is a native, in which I am sure that this particular disease h is obsolutely nothing to do with the p...