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Heberden Society Ann Rheum Dis: first published as 10.1136/ard.25.1.86-b on 1 January 1966. Downloaded from Ann. rheum. Dis. (1966), 25, 86 HEBERDEN SOCIETY OFFICERS, 1966 Junior Hon. Secretary: Dr. J. A. Cosh President: Dr. Oswald Savage Hon. Librarian: Dr. W. S. C. Copeman President-Elect: Dr. J. J. R. Duthie PROGRAMME OF MEETINGS, 1966 March 25: Clinical Meeting, Rheumatism Research Hon. Treasurer: Wing, Birmingham. May 20: Meeting at Harrogate. Dr. F. Dudley Hart October 7: Heberden Round conducted by Dr. R. M. Mason at the London Hospital. Senior Hon. Secretary: November 18: Heberden Oration by Prof. E. G. L. Dr. C. F. Hawkins, Bywaters and Annual General Meeting at the Wellcome Rheumatism Research Wing, Foundation, London. Annual Dinner at the Royal Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, 15 College of Physicians, Regents Park, London. by copyright. DR. HUGH CLEGG Dr. Hugh Clegg retired from the Editorship of the in 1945, soon after the war. He has always exerted an British Medical Journal at the beginning of this year and active influence and rheumatology in Great Britain owes so also from the Editorial Board of the Annals. It was him much. due to his foresight and help that our Journal was The Editor and members of the Editorial Committee adopted by the British Medical Association as one of and Board will miss his wise guidance, but wish him well their quarterly specialist journals which he inaugurated in his retirement. http://ard.bmj.com/ LIGUE INTERNATIONALE CONTRE LE RHUMATISME XI International Congress of Rheumatology, Argentina, 1965 on September 28, 2021 by guest. Protected The report of the Secretary-General, which was Organization. In 1963 the Pan-American section presented at the recent Congress held at Mar del co-sponsored a Symposium on Rheumatic Fever in Plata, Argentina, from December 5 to 11, 1965, the Americas. The President and Secretaries of the mentioned the progress made during the past 4 Ligue have recently been appointed ex-officio years, but stressed the continuing shortage of funds members of the advisory Committee on Arthritis for In more cheerful vein he reported the increasing the International Society for Rehabilitation of the interest in rheumatology which had been stimulated Disabled (ISRD). Plans are in hand for a further in the World Health Organization (WHO) since the intensification of effort and an improvement in the publication of the excellent Report of its Expert financial structure of the Ligue. Committee on Rheumatic Diseases (No. 78) in 1954. Professor Delbarre of Paris has been appointed The Congress was attended by over a thousand representative of the Ligue to the World Health doctors; 347 scientific papers were read and another 86 Ann Rheum Dis: first published as 10.1136/ard.25.1.86-b on 1 January 1966. Downloaded from LIGUE INTERNATIONALE CONTRE LE RHUMATISME 87 forty were accepted by title only. Teaching sym- urethral cells in 24 out of thirty and in the synovial posia took the form of up-to-date reviews of fluid cells in ten out ofsixteen patients with this syndrome. progress in the following fields: biology and patho- logy of connective tissue; nomenclature and classi- Clinical Studies.-Three papers, from Curry and fication; immunology; experimental models of others (London Hospital), de S6ze and his colleagues arthritis; gout; epidemiology; osteo-arthritis; re- (Paris), and Serre and co-workers (Paris), discussed the articularis. The two new and orthopaedic measures; thera- problem of chondrocalcinosis habilitation points which emerged from these papers were, first, that peutics. For the first time, simultaneous translation haemochromatosis had to be added to the list of diseases was available at all the sessions of the Congress. which could predispose articular cartilage to calcification (and it was confirmed that the radio-opacity was due to calcium salts and not to deposited iron) and secondly, Education.-The Congress itself was preceeded by an that a much more exact technique of crystallography international forum on education in rheumatism. This than that commonly employed was needed for the was a valuable session, since it produced for the first time internationally agreed minimum standards for the further study and analysis of this phenomenon. training of rheumatologists and the establishment of The surgery of rheumatoid arthritis attracted a number rheumatism units in relationship to the numbers of of review papers, but few new principles emerged except population and facilities for research and university perhaps that of the so-called hemi-arthroplasty of the education. It is to be hoped that the recommendations knee described by Swanson (Toronto) and based on the of this forum will be published in the Annals at a later work of his surgical colleague, Macintosh. The total date. experience of this operation was over 170 cases with up to 11 years' follow-up. However, Swanson's paper re- Experimental Studies.-Of the experimental work, the viewed only those 56 operations done in 36 patients with star paper was undoubtedly that of W. J. Fahlberg and rheumatoid arthritis with a follow-up of at least 3 years. his colleagues from Baylor, Texas. They had developed Striking relief of pain occurred in all, without loss of a new and successful technique for the culture of myco- movement, and, unexpectedly, a reduction in the titre of plasma organisms from swine arthritis, using a medium rheumatoid factor in some. The operation was par- containing mucins, and with this they had fulfilled ticularly indicated in flexed and/or laterally unstable by copyright. Koch's postulates-for the pig. Using the same knees and could be combined with wedging procedures techniques, they had isolated an immunologically to correct deformity. Severely bedridden patients were homogeneous mycoplasma strain from the synovial best got up in calipers for a year or so in order to correct fluid or biopsy of seventeen out of nineteen patients with osteoporosis and other adverse factors before sub- juvenile or adult rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Synovial mission to operation. The "hanging hip" operation of fluid cytology produced a spate of papers and obser- Voss came in for a critical review from Zinn (Bad Ragaz), vations. The "ragocyte" (or to some, the RA cell) is a who had found that on follow-up this operation com- synovial cell which, when examined under phase- pared very unfavourably with the more usual inter- contrast microscopy, contains rounded translucent trochanteric osteotomy procedures. Rehabilitation or, bodies. These vary in number from one or two, to such when necessary, second operations were severely http://ard.bmj.com/ a large mass that the cell looks like a transparent black- prejudiced by the Voss procedure. berry. Delbarre and others (Paris) found this cell in Jones and Engleman (California) following histological 50 per cent. of synovial fluids from patients with in- studies pointed out that fat embolism could be the cause flammatory arthritis. The phenomenon did not seem of avascular necrosis of articular bone in corticosteroid- to be related to RA factor, and could be reproduced treated patients. In their patients, this had followed experimentally by inducing an Arthus reaction in animal unusually high doses given for immuno-suppressive joints, suggesting that it represented the pinocytosis of reasons. In an interesting discussion, they suggested soluble antigen-antibody (AG-AB) complexes. Broder that fat embolism might arise from fatty changes in the on September 28, 2021 by guest. Protected and Baumal (Toronto) had found circulating AG-AB liver, and similarly that fatty livers might account for the complexes in rheumatoid arthritis which were chemically avascular necroses which sometimes occur in severe distinct from rheumatoid factor and had the property of alcoholism. It was suggested that fat embolization, causing tissue injury. (It seemed that these rather than from rupture offat-bearing cells, rather than free nitrogen rheumatoid factor might be the cause of the specific gas bubbles, might be the immediate cause of bone pain inclusions of the ragocyte.) A similar inclusion body and avascular necrosis in Caisson disease. Bravo was studied in RA and other inflammatory arthritides by (Denver) had noted arthritis of various sorts (including Wilkens and Healey (Seattle) who also found that its five patients with avascular necrosis of bone) in 43 * 6 per presence correlated with inflammation but not with cent. of 55 patients surviving operations for renal trans- rheumatoid factor either in the synovial fluid or in plants. Thompson (Newcastle) and McEwen and extracts of leucocytes from the effusion. Pekin (New Kulka (New York and Boston) read papers of con- Jersey) found a distinctive and previously unrecorded siderable academic interest to those concerned with the leucocyte-containing macrophage in the synovial fluid of classification of chronic arthritis. On the basis of eight patients with Reiter's syndrome, and Coste (Paris) capillary microscopy and three-dimensional recon- reviewed studies on virus-like inclusions found in struction of the small vessels of the skin, they had shown Ann Rheum Dis: first published as 10.1136/ard.25.1.86-b on 1 January 1966. Downloaded from 88 ANNALS OF THE RHEUMATIC DISEASES that there was a change in the microcirculation of the Another lone voice, heard by some with considerable skin in areas remote from the rash in patients with scepticism, was that of Traut (Chicago) reviewing up to psoriasis and arthritis. Moreover, these changes could 10 years of placebo therapy by tablet or injection. "The be detected in certain patients with sero-negative number of rheumatic patients (mostly with degenerative polyarthritis. Thompson found that a weak or absent joint disease) benefiting from placebos equals or exceeds response to Trafuril (in the absence of therapy) correlated those favourably influenced by any or all methods of well with this capillary change and might be used as a therapy, including salicylates or cortisone." This voice clinical or screening test.
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