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...

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...

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...

An out-patient note-book may be made valuable when there is time and efficient assistance to record cases; but single-handed, and with a large number of patients, this is not always possible. Nevertheless, I venture to hope that the following imperfect notes, pf two or three cases out of many, may be useful in drawing attention to one of the minor ailments of life, under cover of which there ma...