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...Rheumatoid arthritis, which usually affects people between the ages of 20 and 40. The cause is still unknown. Some of its symptoms (e.g., slight fever) suggest it may be infectious though no microorganism has so far been incriminated. Another possible cause: metabolic disorders...
...Rheumatoid arthritis usually begins at the extremities, often moves joint by joint from the fingers toward the shoulder. Its pains often migrate at random. Osteoarthritis affects the weight-bearing joints in the spine, hips, knees, and the first joints of the fingers. Its pains are always localized. Rheumatoid sufferers, unlike the osteoarthritics, are usually undernourished, anemic and slightly feverish...
More than 2,000,000 persons in the U. S. are victims of rheumatoid arthritis. What causes arthritis doctors do not know. Some think it a circulatory disturbance; a few call it an allergy; others believe it a sign of emotional conflict. The most widely held theory considers arthritis the result of a streptococcus infection. Since they have not understood its cause, doctors have blindly tried all kinds of treatment, ranging from tooth pulling (to remove a focus of infection), to injections of bee venom (to combat the allergy). But cures are few and far between...
...member: arthritis. Although the main cause of arthritis is "an x factor, as yet unknown," Dr. Cobb and his associates-reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association that "poverty, grief and family worry" are intimately connected with the swollen knuckles and aching joint mice of rheumatoid arthritis...
...which attack human beings unless they load themselves with spinach and other sources of Vitamin C. One of the diseases is rheumatic fever, dread disease which sometimes leaves the hearts of children so leaky that all the rest of their lives they must avoid exertion. The other disease is rheumatoid arthritis (swelling and pain in the joints, particularly in the knees, elbows, wrists). That streptococci most probably cause rheumatic fever has long been suspected. Dr. Charles William Wainwright of Baltimore offered evidence that the streptococcus also is responsible for rheumatism in the joints. In any case children who eat spinach...