Abstract
The subject of the relation existing between chorea and rheumatism has been frequently discussed during the greater part of the last hundred years; but as yet no definite conclusion has been reached, and none can be reached so long as we remain in ignorance of the exact etiology and pathology of the two diseases. What the relation is we can not know as yet, but I believe that today almost all will agree that there is a relation. We must, however, carefully avoid the error of Billiet and Barthez, Joffroy, Graves and Sturges, who believe that all cases of chorea are of rheumatic origin. Starting then, with the confession that we have no facts to prove the nature of the relation, let us see what evidence there is to prove that there is a relation. In the first place, how common is rheumatism in children? I have not been able
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