Abstract
ARTHRITIC JOINTS One still hears too frequently the neglected cripple, on seeking hospital care, declare that her physician despairingly admitted to her or to members of her family that she had arthritis and that there was no treatment which would help her. It is to that physician in whatever community he may reside that this paper is written. Some idea of the relative importance of rheumatism may be gained from the estimated prevalence of specified chronic disease in the United States in 1937,1shown in the accompanying table. In Massachusetts alone, out of a population of about 4,250,000 in 1930, there were 140,000 persons2found afflicted with this king of human misery. Today it represents our greatest single cause of chronic disease. Yet four fifths of the poor and one half of the well-to-do who were suffering from chronic disease were not under the care of any physician.
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