The causes and treatment of rheumatoid arthritis / by Samuel Hyde.

  • Hyde, Samuel.
Date:
1896
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Credit: The causes and treatment of rheumatoid arthritis / by Samuel Hyde. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a criterion, it would appear to be the best of the very many names which have been in- vented to designate the disease now under consideration. As it will be my chief object in the following pages to describe and discuss the most modern methods of the treatment of rheumatoid ar- thritis, and the causes of the disease in relation to treatment, I shall pass over briefly the etiology, predisposing and exciting causes, symptoms and diagnosis, morbid anatomy and pathology of this affection, all of which present most interesting topics for discussion, but which, to treat thoroughly, would greatly outstrip the limited compass of the present manual. It is necessary at the outset to remind the reader that rheumatoid arthritis possesses characteristics which are clearly and markedly distinct from those of either chronic articular rheumatism, or chronic articular gout, in each of which the joint affection is but a part of a general constitutional disease. In rheumatoid arthritis we have an interesting series of arti- cular lesions, which are inde-pendent of those visceral lesions which are such frequent con- comitants of rheumatism, and of those uratic conditions commonly associated with gout. Rheumatoid arthritis may, and does sometimes, follow some previous attacks of gout or rheu- matism, but such cases do not alter the fact that rheumatoid arthritis can, and in most