I. A clinical history of the acute rheumatism, or rheumatick fever. With a correspondence; Containing the testimony of eight eminent physicians ... To explain the beneficial effects of the Peruvian bark, cinchona ... II. A clinical history of the nodosity of the joints / by John Haygarth.

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1813
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Credit: I. A clinical history of the acute rheumatism, or rheumatick fever. With a correspondence; Containing the testimony of eight eminent physicians ... To explain the beneficial effects of the Peruvian bark, cinchona ... II. A clinical history of the nodosity of the joints / by John Haygarth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    one-third of them) had any fever. These last are the cases which come under the title of acute Rheumatism, and exclusively form the subjea of the following pages. The remaining 300 were cases of chronick Rheumatism. Among the higher and middle ranks of society I have noted and classed the cases of 10,549 patients, from 1767 to 1801 inclusive.* Others undoubtedly have been omitted, from the hurry of professional duties, and different causes, but in what proportion cannot be ascer- tained. However as these omissions were accidental, and as they did not » There has not yet been leisure to reduce under their proper genera the cases which have occurred since ISOt- , I have also written clinical reports ot a large number of diseases among persons in the lower ranks ol life, being the cases of all my in and out patients at the Chester Infirmary for thirty-one years. Most of them arc preserved; but I have not yet had time to execute the laborious task of classing them. exclude