The Rheumatic Diseases

Content: Front Matter , Page iii Copyright , Page iv PREFACE , Pages v-vi INTRODUCTION , Pages vii-x CHAPTER I - STRESS, THE STEROIDS AND ACTH, IMMUNOLOGY AND HEREDITY , Pages 1-13 CHAPTER II - SYSTEMIC “RHEUMATIC” DISEASE , Pages 14-32 CHAPTER III - RHEUMATOID DISEASE , Pages 33-60 CHAPTER IV - SPONDYLITIS ANKYLOPŒTICA , Pages 61-71 CHAPTER V - OSTEO-ARTHRITIS , Pages 72-87 CHAPTER VI - GOUT , Pages 88-100 CHAPTER VII - SUBSIDIARY AND PSEUDO RHEUMATIC SYNDROMES , Pages 101-112 CHAPTER VIII - NON-ARTICULAR “RHEUMATISM” , Pages 113-124 CHAPTER IX - SPECIAL TREATMENTS , Pages 125-150 CHAPTER X - RESETTLEMENT AND HELP IN THE HOME , Pages 151-159 INDEX , Pages 161-163 The Rheumatic Diseases, Fourth Edition, provides a comprehensive discussion of the clinical features of rheumatic diseases. The book opens with discussions of stress, the steroids and ACTH, immunology and heredity. These are followed by separate on the incidence, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of systemic rheumatic diseases, rheumatoid disease, ankylosing spondylitis, osteo-arthritis and spondylosis, gout, subsidiary and pseudo rheumatoid syndromes, and non-articular rheumatism. This book makes no attempt to express every opinion nor to give references to research papers. It is not a book