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Rheumatology 2004; 43: 803-805
Rheumatology Vol. 43 No. 6 © British Society for Rheumatology 2004; all rights reserved

Heberden Historical Series

Art and history: a large research avenue for rheumatologists

Heberden Historical Series/Series Editor: M. Jayson

T. Appelboom

Division of Rheumatology, Erasmus University Hospital, 808 route de lennik, B-1070 Brussels, Belgium. E-mail: tappelbo@ulb.ac.be

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The historical analysis of rheumatology basically developed around gout and rheumatoid arthritis (RA), mainly because until the nineteenth century, all rheumatic conditions were called gout (this blanket term also included diseases that had nothing to do with gout) and because the question mark over the late appearance of RA in the Old World is a topic currently the subject of debate [1–4].

These rheumatic conditions and spondylarthritis have affected emperors, kings, politicians, religious leaders and artists, among others [5]; they probably contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire [6], to epidemics of gout in the well-to-do of the British Empire since the sixteenth century [2], and to American independence [7]. These so-called epidemics of gout are explained by the Roman custom during antiquity of preparing food and wine in receptacles made of lead, which caused lead poisoning . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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