Differentiation in rheumatic disease (so-called) based on communications read before the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Association 1892, Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Association 14th May 1890 and reprinted from The Lancet, October, 1891 / by Hugh Lane.

  • Lane, Hugh.
Date:
1892
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Credit: Differentiation in rheumatic disease (so-called) based on communications read before the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Association 1892, Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Association 14th May 1890 and reprinted from The Lancet, October, 1891 / by Hugh Lane. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and the idea of preventing its approach, of looking for constitutional symptoms, or, in fact, attempting anything beyond the mere alleviation of its pain—when once the vic- tim was in its grip—was a thing unheard of. It did not then seem to he realized, that when a patient complained of pains, swollen joints, and other kindred deformi- ties, that to say “ this is rheumatism,” and to prescribe some stereotyped treatment applicable to rheumatism so-called, was not to exhaust the subject, nor even to lead the way to the ultimate hope of eradicating the source and origin of the evil. But now that we are beginning to understand the true nature, indications, and treatment of its various forms, and when the conviction is forced upon us that it is because of these so many of the population around us are racked and torn with pains and deformed beyond the semblance of humanity, now we also begin to see the burden that lies upon us to relieve these victims, to make life more tolerable for them and better worth living; in tine, to demonstrate to them that