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

Date:
1890
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    with thickening and effusion, especially in the knees, in these acute attacks, supervening on the chronic rheumatic arthritis, than when no previous arthritis exists. These attacks do not last long, and are not, as a rule, accompanied by much local disturbance except pain. Eedness and heat do not exist to a great extent, but swelling is the most character- istic feature. It is rare to find the cases which have been described as chi-onic rheumatoid arthritis taking on an action of this sort—that is, an aggravation, local or general, or both, of all the symptoms which characterise chronic rheumatoid arthritis. But what does happen is, as has been akeady mentioned, an acute attack of rheumatism super- venes on an already existing arthritis; this being quite different from the aggravation of the symptoms which characterise rheumatic art;hritis. The one,' it will be observed, is a something added, the other merely an increase of the same. Some writers have mentioned in theii- accounts of rheumatoid arthritis (and it is, of course, assumed that they meant rheumatic arthritis too) that the reflexes were increased.