In the encyclopaedic discussion, the primary lesion of rheumatic fever and rheumatism is noted: "Its proximate cause seems to be inflammation of the lymphatic arteries".
Specific diseases that are alternatively called rheumatism include rheumatoid arthritis; rheumatic fever; septic arthritis that accompanies such diseases as gonorrhea, tuberculosis, or mycotic diseases (caused by fungus); and osteoarthritis.
Later in the text, chronic rheumatism is mentioned as "either the remains of a rheumatic fever, or a continuation of pains that proceeded at first from lesser but neglected colds".
He used the word to describe a form of muscular rheumatism and to describe what is now known as rheumatic fever.
In the third volume of the first edition of Encyclopædia Britannica; or, A Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, published between 1768 and 1771, the entry on medicine contains a paragraph "of the rheumatism," in which the authors provide an account of acute rheumatic fever.
Avoiding Hitler What the world is reading Written in anger Utility's limits Dissident politics on the net Where life began Rights and wrongs of genetic engineering Gout and glory The big empty ReprintsLord Chesterfield, rehearsing an established view, opined that "the gout is the distemper of a gentleman; whereas the rheumatism is the distemper of a hackney coachman".
Their lives were intentionally obscured; in the 1871 census Caroline was listed as a widowed housekeeper and Martha referred to as Mrs Dawson.Collins suffered from rheumatism, gout and the peculiarly Victorian affliction of "nerves", which led to his over-reliance on laudanum.
A daily tablespoon of honey kept rheumatism at bay.
It will contain detailed profiles of 23 plants, including devil's claw, which is used to treat rheumatism; red stinkwood, whose bark provides an ingredient for prostate-cancer drugs; and African ginger, which is good for relieving headaches.
Its boosters promised that the ocean air would cure consumption, rheumatism, eczema and (yes!) insanity.
In the past two years there have been at least 20 thefts in Britain alone from zoos, museums and private collections.In traditional Chinese medicine, powdered rhino horn was wrongly believed to be effective against fevers, rheumatism, gout and much else.
