On rheumatism, rheumatic gout, and sciatica : their pathology, symptoms, and treatment / by Henry William Fuller.

  • Fuller, Henry William, 1820-1873.
Date:
1856
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Credit: On rheumatism, rheumatic gout, and sciatica : their pathology, symptoms, and treatment / by Henry William Fuller. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CPAPTER IX. PAGE 256 ON THE STATISTICS OF HEAKT DISEASE IN CONNECTION WITH RHEUMATISM. Statistical records of rheumatic heart affections, most important Difficulties which present themselves in instituting a comparison bet'sveen the reports of various observers . . . 257—259 Cases from-which tlie author's inferences are drawn . . 259—202 Table exhibiting the proportion of cases in which some form of heart affection occurred „ the proportion of cases in which recent heart i 262 affection occurred .... „ the proportion of cases in which old-standing heart disease existed Inferences as to the proportion which old-standing heart disease bears to acute and sub-acute rheumatism viewed conjointly, and to acute and sub-acute rheumatism taken separately . 262, 263 Proportion of cases of acute rheumatism in which some form of recent heart affection occurs, as shown by the experience of various observers ...... 263, 26'! Facts tending to corroborate these results . . . 264 Observations in reference to the frequency of pericarditis in acute rheumatism . . . 265 „ frequency of recent endocardial affection in acute rheumatism 266, 267 „ relative frequency of recent exo- cardial and endocardial affec- tion in acute rheumatism . 267, 268 Tables exhibiting the result of these observations . . . 268, 269 Author's explanation of the great excess in the frequency of endo- cardial affection displayed in these tables . . . 269, 270 Influence of age in determining the access of cardiac affection . 272, 273 of sex ,, „ „ 273 Connection which exists between the form which the articular symptoms assume and the liability to heart affection . . 274, 275 Period of the attack at which heart affection most commonly arises ........ 275—277 Heart affections observed less frequently in primary than in sub- sequent attacks of acute rheumatism . . . 277, 278 Pericarditis and true inflammation of the endocardium, more frequent in primary than in subsequent attacks of acute rheumatism. ....... 279 Table i.—Exhibiting the number of cases of acute and sub-acute rlieumatism, which were complicated by disease of the heart; the age and sex of the patients in whom it occurred; the form which it assumed; and the proportion in wliich each form occurred among the two 8CXC3 ...... 279, 280