THE PRESENT STATUS OF THE PROBLEM OF "RHEUMATISM" AND ARTHRITIS; REVIEW OF AMERICAN AND ENGLISH LITERATURE FOR 1934
Authors: Philip S. Hench, Walter Bauer, A. Almon Fletcher, David Ghrist, Francis Hall, T. Preston White
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1936)

Article1 January 1936THE PRESENT STATUS OF THE PROBLEM OF "RHEUMATISM" AND ARTHRITIS; REVIEW OF AMERICAN AND ENGLISH LITERATURE FOR 1934PHILIP S. HENCH, M.D., WALTER BAUER, M.D., F.A.C.P., A. ALMON FLETCHER, M.D., DAVID GHRIST, M.D., F.A.C.P., FRANCIS HALL, M.D., F.A.C.P., T. PRESTON WHITE, M.D.PHILIP S. HENCH, M.D., WALTER BAUER, M.D., F.A.C.P., A. ALMON FLETCHER, M.D., DAVID GHRIST, M.D., F.A.C.P., FRANCIS HALL, M.D., F.A.C.P., T. PRESTON WHITE, M.D.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-9-7-883 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptCONTENTSIntroductoryGeneral incidence and occupational distributionDiseases of joints related to traumaDiseases of joints due to infection of known typeGonorrheal arthritisTuberculous arthritis"Tuberculous rheumatism"Pneumococcal arthritisScarlatinal arthritis; postscarlatinal rheumatismSyphilitic diseases of jointsUndulant feverHaverhill fever; erythema arthriticum epidemicumSeptic (purulent) arthritisArthritis of subacute bacterial endocarditisMeningococcic arthritisRheumatic feverChronic arthritisIntroduction and terminologyGeneral remarks on etiologyDifferentiation—clinical, pathologic, and radiologic1. Atrophic arthritis2. Hypertrophic arthritis3. Backache and sciatica4. 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