By this term is meant an inflammation of a joint, or joints, but today it is used more specifically now to designate an inflammation due to infection from some local focus of suppuration, such as abscessed teeth, tonsils, gall-bladder, or appendix or to gonorrhea. Practically all cases, however, are due primarily to overeating and other dietetic errors; insufficient elimination, enervation, and general wrong habits of living, although arthritis is classified as rheumatic, syphilitic, suppurative, tuberculous, gouty or as a result of spinal cord lesions or typhoid infection.
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