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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    invariable accompaniment of one or more of the facts about to be mentioned. So impressed have we been by the jn'osence of some of these with ahnost unerring regularity, that, having recognised in the arthritis that we have most probably a case of rheumatoid arthritis to deal with, we have instantly gone farther, and been fully prepared to find, and have invariably established the presence of one or other of the following symptoms, with a view of clinching the diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis. So confi- dent have we now become over the association of these characteristics, that, failing the presence of these typical neuroses, we take it as a strong element in favour of its being chi'onic rheumatic arthritis, which we enter into in the section devoted to its consideration. Probably the most telling neural symptom is that of sweating, local and general. The local form is, perhaps, more frequently seeD than the general, and, as far as has been noticed, more significant in chronic rheumatoid arthritis than any other symptom. The localities most frequently affected are the palms of the hands and the dorsal surfaces of the feet; occasionally, and at times very markedly