. A manual of electro-static modes of application, therapeutics, radiography, and radiotherapy . 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 writer
. A manual of electro-static modes of application, therapeutics, radiography, and radiotherapy . 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 atro-. Fig. 38. phy, pigmentation, absorption, and destruction of the soft partsin which it resembles to some extent the similar conditions oflocomotor ataxia, progressive muscular atrophy, and allieddiseases. In the writers cases, which number more than fifty,there has in most cases been present some exhausting conditionor chronic affection such as Brights disease, but most com-monly some of the affections associated with menstrual de- THERAPEUTICS OF INFLAMMATORY CONDITIONS. 87 rangements. This makes probable the theory that the trophicconditions which seem to cause the disease arise from mal-nutrition. The prognosis is relative to the length of time that thedisease has been present, to the nature of the complicating
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