Studies in Juvenile Rheumatism

Juvenile Rheumatism in London.

FOR the purpose of this paper it is to be understood that the term " juvenile rheumatism " refers to rheumatic disease occurring in children under the age of sixteen. This definition is convenient rather than scientific. It is convenient clinically, in that by far the greater number of initial attacks occur before the age of sixteen, and it has the further practical convenience that up to this ...

A study of the sedimentation rate in juvenile rheumatism.

In a previous communication3 a simple method of estimating the sedimentation rate (S.R.) was described which had the great advantage of requiring only a finger prick. Close agreement between the degree of rheumatic activity and the height of the sedimentation rate was demonstrated. This has been confirmed by Bach and Gray Hill', Struthers and Bacal6, Perry4 and others. In this paper it is propo...

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 ...

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