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Title: American quarterly of roentgenology
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: American Roentgen Ray Society
Subjects: Nuclear Medicine Radiography Radiology Radiology
Publisher: Pittsburgh : American Roentgen Ray Society
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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ic jointdiseases, which tend to progress unless checked by favorableinfluences. These cases present much similarity from theclinical side, and an accurate diagnosis is possible only whena complete Rontgen examination is made.. Etiology.—Most cases of chronic joint disease in whichsome bacteriologic agent cannot be demonstrated, are shownto be due to faulty metabolism. The absorption of putrefac-tive substances from the intestinal tract, especially the colon,causes a deposition in and around the joints, of insoluble sub-stances which act as irritants to the delicate synovial mem-brane. The auto-intoxication resulting from the absorptionof products of incomplete metabolism is often found to reston a simple mechanical basis. Ptosis of the viscera, especiallythe stomach and colon, allows the food to stagnate, and torsionand partial occlusion of the intestines resulting from theptosis permit the delay in the passage of food and so favorthe absorption of toxines from the alimentary tract.
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Fig. 1 — VILLOUS ARTHRITIS No bony changes. 1 hickening of soft parts beneath patella. Hammond: Joint Disease 125 Great credit is due to the members of this Society, notablyHulst, Leonard, Pfahler, Pancoast and others, as well as theforeign workers, Rieder, Von Ziemssen, Holzknecht, Groedel,and many others, for calling attention to the normal positionof the viscera in the standing posture of the body, and theobservations on visceroptosis in a large series of cases. Lastyear at the meeting of this Society in Atlantic City, Dr.Percy Brown called attention, in an admirable paper, to therelation between bodily deformity and gastro-intestinal irregu-larities. The significance of this work was not fully appreci-ated at the time, but recently attention2 has been directed tovisceroptosis as a causative factor in chronic joint diseases.The ptosis may be congenital in some cases, at least thetendency to it is so considered. In a larger percentage ofcases it is acquired, and is due to faulty a

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