The classification and treatment of diseases commonly known as rheumatism / by Frank E. Peckham.

  • Peckham, Frank E.
Date:
1910
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Credit: The classification and treatment of diseases commonly known as rheumatism / by Frank E. Peckham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and all kinds of treatment and no method can yet report one hundred per cent of cures to say the least. An extremely interesting case of such a type presented itself at the clinic one day. Most of the joints of the body were involved and had been for many months. A careful history and examination revealed infectious arthritis with a chronic urethritis and a tender and swollen seminal sac and enlarged and tender prostate. The patient said that he thought he knew what his trouble was much better than almost all of the doctors whom he had consulted because they all persisted in calling it rheumatism and giving him medicines which upset his stomach, thus spoiling his digestion and doing him absolutely no good. He said he was certain his trouble was all due to gonorrhea and that treat- ment which had done him more good than anything else had been in one city where the doctor had inserted in the urethra a glass vacuum electrode and gave him electricity in this way. Here was, as can be seen, a case of gonorrheal arthritis and only one man out of a great many had known the best way to treat it. This corroborates very nicely what has been written above. Infections following some of the infectious diseases are also still called rheumatism, but by what stretch of the imagination it is impossible to know. It is not un- common for the grippe to create joint disturbance. A recent case was that of a young woman who had an at- tack of the grippe and on the second or third day the