The first edition of this book was so well received that it was sold out within 2 years of its publication, Due to some unforeseen circumstances, it has not been possible to bring out the second edition though the stock was exhausted more than a year ago. Consequently it has not been possible to meet the demands of those who asked for copies of the book within recent months.
The lay-out of the book was explained in detail in the Preface of the first edition. The second edition is a revised and much enlarged version of its predecessor. The errors and omissions which cluttered the first edition are no more. Chapter 3 which deals with 'Rheumatic Disease Group' has been reorganised and updated. It now includes additional diagrams illustrating exercises recommended for the treatment of 'Lumbago-sciatica syndrome'.
Chapter 5-Repertory has now been enlarged by including a section which provides hints on the method of selection of a remedy in any particular case.
Dr. Ram Gandhi, M.B.B.S. has, at my request, overhauled Chapter 6-dealing with 'Allopathic Treatment of Rheumatic Diseases and updated it to conform to current practice.
Several new entries of technical terms have been made in Appendix II Glossary; they had been inadvertently left out in the First edition.
The author hopes that the Second edition would be found to be a much improved, both in content and the presentation of the main text and that even a lay reader would find it easier to comprehend and thus derive full benefit from it.
I have gone through the manuscript of Dr. S.L. Kumar's exhaustive treatise on Rheumatism. Dr. Kumar allowed me sufficient time to go through this detailed book on a disease of which so many fall prey especially in their advanced age.
Dr. Kumar has taken great pains in writing this book. Though he is a homeopath and has advocated homeopathic treatment of this troublesome disease, yet he has dealt in two separate chapters treatment of this disease by Allopathic and Ayurvedic systems. I agree that a knowledge of the medicines used by other methods will certainly help a homeopath to successfully treat his patient homoeopathically; more often patients seek homeopathic treatment after they are disappointed by other systems.
Dr. Kumar has given detailed symptoms of over a hundred medicines and thus no medicine has been left which can be indicated in rheumatic disease. He has taken great pains in collecting and compiling symptoms of each remedy in such a way that a physician will perhaps not need to consult any Materia Medica for this disease at least.
An additional chapter on Repertory adds a great deal to the utility of this book. While prescribing one often has to consult Repertory and Dr. Kumar has provided the same for ready reference.
Now-a-days Physiotherapy has played an important part in relieving the ailments of rheumatic patients and the learned author has dealt in detail with it, as well as with different exercises.
A chapter on Diet has added to the usefulness of this book.
1.1. General
It is a rare adult who has never suffered from some form of 4 rheumatic disease. Such diseases are almost the oldest to have plagued man and other creatures causing pain, disablement and, if the case is not well managed or treated in time, crippling.
In rheumatic diseases, abnormalities have been observed in the supporting structures of the body-the ligaments, tendons, joints, muscles and bones-the tough parts of the body. They arise when something goes wrong with the manufacture or the maintenance of the big molecules that make up the tough structures of the body causing aching, swelling, pain and stiffness and sometimes heat, redness and gross inflammation.
1.2. Classification
There are about 50 different groups of rheumatic disorders that are clubbed together under 2 main labels-Arthritis and rheumatism. Arthritis literally means the inflammation of a joint. This name, in popular usage, is given to a number of disease processes that result in aching and pain in aud around joints as a result of infection, metabolic and/or constitutional causes. Rheumatism, on the other hand, is a term commonly used to describe aching, pain, inflammation and stiffness in the muscles and the connective tissues.
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