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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Rheumatism and musculoskeletal disorders
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Rheumatism and musculoskeletal disorders series.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Preface; Chapter 1; The Advent of Medical Bacteriology in the Words of Participants; References; Chapter 2; History of Gonorrhea and Gonococcal Arthritis; The First Concepts Suggestive of Gonorrhea; Gonorrheal Arthritis before Discovery of the Gonococcus, Early Phase; Ocular Gonorrhea and Rheumatism; The Bacteriologic, Pre-Antibiotic Period; Gonococcal Arthritis in Infancy and Pregnancy; The Gonococcal Arthritis- Dermatitis Syndrome; The Gonococcal Complement Fixation Test; Treatment; Do the Risks of Copaiba and Cubebs Exceed Their Therapeutic Benefit? |
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Etiologically Focused TherapyThe Advent of Antibiotics; Antibiotic Resistance; Incidence, Sex Incidence, Joints Affected; A Royal Case; Timeline for Gonococcal Arthritis; References; Chapter 3; The History of Reactive Arthritis (Reiter's Disease); Possible Reiter's Disease before 1900; The 20th Century Pre-Antibiotic Understanding of Reiter's Disease; Reiter Biography; Development of the Reiter Eponym; Immunology and Antibiotics; Non-Microbiological Diagnostic Efforts; Clinical Peculiarities; Cardiac Complications; Keratodermia Blennorhagica. |
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Is Keratodermia Blennorhagica a Variety of Psoriasis?The Influence of the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS); Spondyloarthropathy; Self-Experimentation; Conclusion; Early Case Reports of Reiter's Disease; Timeline; References; Chapter 4; Max Schüller and the Presumption of a Bacterial Cause of Rheumatoid Arthritis; Biography; Bacteriology of Joints; The Conflict Begins; Schüller on the Etiology of Syphilis; Microscopy; References; Chapter 5; The Interaction of Bacterial Concepts of the Pathogenesis of Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatoid Arthritis. |
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Early Etiologic Hypotheses of Rheumatic FeverThe Early Bacteriology of Rheumatic Fever; Bacteriology of Rheumatoid Arthritis; The Focus of Infection Theory; Discrepancies between Blood Cultures and Immunologic Tests; Concerns about Contaminants; The Conflict between the Laboratories of Cecil and Dawson; Solution of the Etiology of Rheumatic Fever; Therapeutic Evidence; Discussion; References; Chapter 6; History of Polymyositis and Dermatomyositis; Similarities between Polymyositis and Trichinosis; 20th Century Clinical PM/DM; Pyomyositis and a Microbial Etiology of PM. |
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Possible Variants of PolymyositisModern Variants; Overlap Syndromes and Diagnostic Criteria; Diagnostic Procedures; Is Eosinophilia Diagnostically Helpful?; Biochemical Criteria; The "Anti-Jo-1" Antibody; Pediatric Dermatomyositis; Visceral Involvement and Calcinosis; Epidemiology and the Association of DM/PM with Cancer; Treatment; References; Chapter 7; The History of Scleroderma (Systemic Sclerosis); The Ancient Period up to the 19th Century; 19th Century Differentiation of Scleroderma; Attempts to Determine the Prevalence and Life Expectancy of Scleroderma Patients. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Rheumatism -- History.
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Rheumatism. |
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History. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Print version: Benedek, Thomas G. Rheumatism: Its History from the Advent of Experimental Science to the Impact of Bacteriology. Hauppauge : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., ©2017 9781536104301 |
| ISBN |
9781536104424 (electronic book) |
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1536104426 (electronic book) |
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9781536104301 |
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