The various manifestations of the rheumatic state as exemplified in childhood and early life.

  • Cheadle, Walter B. (Walter Butler), 1835-1910.
Date:
1889
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    ordinary degree. A rheumatic mother had twelve children, and eleven of them had rheumatism before the age of twenty. Now it occurred to me that this extraordinary tendency of rheumatism to develop in certain families might be due to some special faults of locality or circumstances, but careful inquiry into a number of cases showed me that they arose in very various localities, in members of the family when in different places and under different conditions. Having thus reviewed broadly the general charac- teristics of the rheumatism of childhood—viz. the comparative insignificance of the articular affection; the prominence and importance of other phenomena, some of which, such as nodules and chorea, are limited to early life; the tendency of these phe- nomena to appear independently, scattered singly or in groups through a considerable period; sometimes one, sometimes another, appearing as the primary phase, and the others in varying order of succession; the influence of sex, and of hereditary predisposition, —I pass on to the consideration of the various phases in detail. The first—the arthritis, or articular rheu- matism—differs in many notable features from the acute articular rheumatism of later life. I have al- luded already to the fact, sufficiently recognised, that the articular affection is usually comparatively slight