. Diseases of bones and joints . or the displacedabdominal organs. His results seem excellent. SEVERE OR MULTIARTICULAR GROUP. This group is essentially multiarticular and pro-gressive, involving several joints in succession. Itoccurs almost certainly as a late syphilitic The view has been advanced that a focusof infection exists somewhere in the body in everycase—in the gall-bladder, the tonsil, the appendix,the genito-urinary tract, etc.—and that just as the gonococcus can cause an acute arthritis, and, whenCausative ° . ., , . f . , . , . \ . Aqents domiciled in the origina
. Diseases of bones and joints . or the displacedabdominal organs. His results seem excellent. SEVERE OR MULTIARTICULAR GROUP. This group is essentially multiarticular and pro-gressive, involving several joints in succession. Itoccurs almost certainly as a late syphilitic The view has been advanced that a focusof infection exists somewhere in the body in everycase—in the gall-bladder, the tonsil, the appendix,the genito-urinary tract, etc.—and that just as the gonococcus can cause an acute arthritis, and, whenCausative ° . ., , . f . , . , . \ . Aqents domiciled in the original host, a chronic arthritis, so can the typhoid bacillus, the pneumococcus, 1 Colorado Medicine, August, 1911. DISEASES OF BONES AND JOINTS 117 the streptococcus, the staphylococcus, and possiblyothers. This view is largely theoretical, but evi-dence is constantly accumulating to support it. An increased excretion of calcium salts has beendetected in these cases. This is what one would ex-pect when the bone is
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