EPIPHARYNGITIS AND RHEUMATISM

[Headache and epipharyngitis].

Epipharyngeal inflammation was found in all ation of headache. the cases of 32 patients who complained of headache As a result of such treatment,-relationship of unknown cause or causes. between both symptoms was explored; the impro-Application of a ZnCI_ solution as a local tre-vement of inflammation as well as of pain or ble-atment for epipharyngitis was made to different eding on touch in th...

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...

Arthritis and Rheumatism

T IS RECOGNIZED that tests for rheumaI toid factors are less often positive in juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) than in the adult form of the disease. The explanation for this discrepancy is not completely clear. Those children who develop seropositivity may constitute a separate group of patients from the standpoint of diagnosis or prognosis. Ideally, to ascertain this, children with arthri...