Primer on the Rheumatic Diseases

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A note on the genealogy of the Primer: This is the sixthPrimer on the Rheumatic Diseasesto be published inThe Journalof the American Medical Association.1-5The first of these six appeared in 1942 and was titledPrimer on Arthritis.1This abecedarium, identified by its authors as the "Second Primer on Arthritis," represented a revision of thePrimer on Rheumatism, Chronic Arthritis, which had been issued in 1934 by the American Committee for the Control of Rheumatism (forerunner of the American Rheumatism Association Section of The Arthritis Foundation). This latter work, generally considered the first of thePrimers, was a brochure that had been prepared for distribution in connection with a scientific exhibit on arthritis at the Annual Convention of the American Medical Association.6 In fact, there were were two earlier publications in this line by the American Committee for the Control of Rheumatism. The first of these (What is Rheumatism?) was printed in 1928, and the second (Rheumatism Primer: Chronic Arthritis) was privately distributed in 1932.6

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