A NEW AND APPARENTLY SUCCESSFUL METHOD OF TREATING METABOLIC OSTEO-ARTHRITIS
- 17 June 1911
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. LVI (24) , 1779-1784
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1911.02560240009003
Abstract
In the last1of a series of papers on the so-called rheumatoid diseases, I briefly outlined a method of treatment for one, the most serious, condition usually included in this group. This method of treatment I have now used for four years, and as it has proved efficacious in nearly all cases, and especially so in those usually considered hopeless, I consider it worthy of detailed description. The greatest difficulty in judging the results of a given form of treatment in the so-called rheumatoid diseases is due to our extremely indefinite and faulty nomenclature; the majority of the reports of the treatment give only a vague idea of the nature of the disease under treatment; and in by far the majority of instances a number of evidently diverse conditions are treated in exactly the same way. For this reason, as the condition to be discussed here is a distinctKeywords
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