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any disease marked by inflammation and pain in the joints, muscles, or fibrous tissue, especially rheumatoid arthritis.
See the section on Pain. Rheumatism is an excessively vagrant malady, moving from one part to another, seated in muscular and fibrous tissues. It arises from a vice of blood, and it is often replaced by some skin eruption, and returns when the eruption disappears.
Electro-Homoeopathy Treatment.—If it is accidental it will yield to R. E. ; sometimes to R. E. alt. Y. E. and to G. E., if there is pain in the joints. If it returns, it can only be effectually dealt with by internal means. Dil. S. second dilution, 10 globules in wine at meals. Baths of S. or of C5 or A2, or W. E. Compresses of G. E. on the joints and the painful parts.
It is to be observed that in rheumatism S. should be taken in the second dilution if there is no crisis; in the third if there is crisis.
In inveterate cases of rheumatic gout* with nodes, swelling and distortion of the joints, C. internally and Cs externally are very efficacious.