. A manual of electro-static modes of application, therapeutics, radiography, and radiotherapy . ace in rheumatoidarthritis in children are quite remarkable as is shown in the ac-companying skiagraph, Fig. 37. It will be noticed that thejoint between the metacarpal and the first phalanx of eachhand is disarticulated and that all the phalanges and metacarpalbones are wider than normal. The latter condition, we believe,takes place in all cases of rheumatoid arthritis in young chil-dren. Once established the disease may involve many or all of thejoints of the body. It is characteristic of no age
. A manual of electro-static modes of application, therapeutics, radiography, and radiotherapy . ace in rheumatoidarthritis in children are quite remarkable as is shown in the ac-companying skiagraph, Fig. 37. It will be noticed that thejoint between the metacarpal and the first phalanx of eachhand is disarticulated and that all the phalanges and metacarpalbones are wider than normal. The latter condition, we believe,takes place in all cases of rheumatoid arthritis in young chil-dren. Once established the disease may involve many or all of thejoints of the body. It is characteristic of no age or sex; young children are THERAPEUTICS OF INFLAMMATORY CONDITIONS. 85 affected and it may also commence in the aged. It is far morecommon, however, with women during active menstrual case shown in Fig. 38 is that of a child seven years case was reported at the meeting of the American Electro-Therapeutic Association held at Washington in 1899 and pub-lished in the Transactions of the Association for 1899 and 1900and in the Post-Graduate for October, 1899. The effects of the. Fig- 37- treatment upon this case, together with the favorable resultsobtained upon an adult patient at about the same time, led thewriter to devote much attention to the study of the case shown in Fig. 39 is another instance of the manner inwhich the disease attacks young children. The aetiology of rheumatoid arthritis is a question of and Spender adhere to the notion that it is due tosome germ. This view has not, however, been confirmedby most observers, and the writers experience in the 86 STATIC ELECTRICITY. treatment of the disease leads him to doubt the presence ofsuch a cause, because of the success obtained in the treatmentof the disease, employing a means that does not unfavorablyaffect cell protoplasm or the germs known to be present inother diseases. There is, however, abundant evidence of anaffection of the trophic nerve centers from the muscular atr
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