Medical Specialties
Rheumatology
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Also Known As Rheumatologic Medicine
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Origin The mid-1930s
Rheumatology, from the Ancient Greek for flowing current, is the branch of medicine devoted to diagnosing and managing disorders whose common feature is inflammation in the bones, muscles, joints and internal organs. It covers more than one hundred distinct rheumatic diseases, among them arthritis, lupus and Sjögren's syndrome, most of which are autoimmune or inflammatory in origin rather than purely mechanical.
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Origin PeriodDated to the 1934-1935 founding of the American Association for the Study and Control of Rheumatic Diseases, later the American Rheumatism Association and then the American College of Rheumatology; the main Rheumatology Wikipedia article's own History section covers only rheumasurgery and does not address the specialty's general emergence, so this is cited to the founding society's own history instead. Cross-Tradition Connections
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1. Ernest E. Irons (Wikipedia)
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In 1934-1935, he was the founding president of the American Association for the Study and Control of Rheumatic Diseases, which was later known as the American Rheumatism Association and the American College of Rheumatology.
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a branch of medicine devoted to the diagnosis and management of disorders of which the common feature is inflammation in the bones, muscles, joints, and internal organs
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