The rheumatic diseases (so called) with original suggestions for more clearly defining them / by Hugh Lane and Charles T. Griffiths.

  • Lane, Hugh.
Date:
1890
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    more or less constantly pressing u^^on this attach- ment, such as in those whose occupation involves much standing, determines the affection of this locality, as the corresponding fascia3 in the upper extremity, viz., the palmar fasci'ce, seem but rarely affected. The complications of rheumatism, such as rheumatic iritis and rheumatic periostitis, do not seem quite so prevalent as the text-books would have us belie^'e. Out of three thousand cases of rheumatism in all its forms, only about five cases of rheumatic iritis have come under our notice ; while rheumatic periostitis has been even more rarely seen than that. Young adults have certainly complained of aching of the bones at night, but this has not been attended by any of the usual signs of periostitis sufficiently to warrant a diagnosis of periostitis being given. In three of the five cases of rheumatic iritis there was a more or less genuine history of specific mischief, so that must be taken in the reckoning ; but, as the opinion leaned to was that the iritis was rheumatic, the treatment was adopted for such, and the cases ended very satisfactorily. Many of the cases hitherto described as