A 65-year-old male resident of Guatemala presented with a 5-month history of distal symmetric arthritis and generalized fatigue. This was associated with night sweats, chills, and weight loss. Symptoms were refractory to oral prednisone and hydroxychloroquine.

In the Report of the Medical Advisory Committee (Scotland) on the Chronic Rheumatic Diseases, the fact is stressed that " there are no means at present of assessing the amount of rheumatism among the non-insured population or in nonincapacitated insured persons ". In an attempt to provide figures relating to a whole population (though a small one) an inquiry was devised to ascertain the amount ...

In 1961 Dr. R. M. Stecher published a useful bringing up to date the information concerning the "World list of periodical literature in arthritis and items he recorded and adding the titles of journals rheumatism" (Arthr. and Rheum., 1961, 4, 378-88). that began publication after his list was published. After listing all known journals on the subject, he Some reviews of the literature on rheuma...

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 ...

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...

Information on 22 claims of Tribal and other Folk-lore Medicine on Rheumatism, gathered from the aboriginals and villagers of Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Orissa States is presented in this article, proposing an indepeth study into these claims on the same lines as those formulated for Ayurvedic research and in accordance with the advice of the author of Dhanwantari Nighantu, vido Slokas ...

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...