On the pathogenesis and clinic of rheumatism

Abstract

The problem of rheumatism is one of the most current and interesting topics of medicine of the last 10-15 years. It is devoted to a large number of works in the world literature, it was and is dealt with by doctors all over the world. There are several reasons for this. The first of them is an excessive number of "rheumatic diseases" among the population of the whole globe; statistics of different countries speak eloquently about it. The second reason that has prompted physicians to study this question is that, until recently, there has been a great deal of confusion about what we mean by "rheumatism".