Notes on rheumatism / by Julius Pollock.

  • Pollock, Julius.
Date:
1878
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Credit: Notes on rheumatism / by Julius Pollock. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    for an almost indefinite period. Tlie parts attacked are not really tire muscles, but the white fibrous tissue that forms their apo- neuroses and tendons, the different fasciae and ligaments. Tliere is no tendency whatever to heart mischief, and life is not threatened, though it may be embittered, by the disease. Difference of occupation, errors in diet and mode of living, which are such powerful pre- disposing causes in muscular rheumatism, scarcely - seem to affect the liability to the articular form. Thus, although to save the very objectionable plan of giving new names to famihar disorders,* we stiU apply the term rheumatism to both diseases, it is obvious that they are essentially distinct and separate, and should be treated as two different com- plaints. It is thus that I propose to deal with them, and I shall speak of articular rheumatism first. * In the translation of Ziemssen’s new work, arti- cular rheumatism is spoken of as “Polyarthritis Rheumatica.”