Arthritis and rheumatism

Summary

With an eye to effect it is said that doctors get the patients they deserve. A more true general statement is that they get the patients with diseases in which they are interested. Nevertheless, the rheumatic diseases are so common at all ages after youth, and homœopathy has so much to contribute to the management of these illnesses, that it is instructive to record and analyse the caseload of rheumatic disease referred to one consultant physician over a twelve-month period. There will be a brief reference to the concept of the chronic pain syndrome, and to certain aspects of homœopathic prescribing in general, but not to the materia medica of individual remedies or the homœopathic treatment of individual patients.