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Title: Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Medical Society of New Jersey Medical Society of New Jersey. Transactions of the Medical Society of New Jersey Medical Society of New Jersey. Official list of fellows and members Medical Society of New Jersey. Annual report
Subjects: Medicine Socieites, Medical Tuberculosis
Publisher: Lawrenceville, N.J. (etc.) : Medical Society of New Jersey
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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This supports a state-ment made by authors that the disease ismore frequent in the latter than in theformer sex, though the difference is nota noticeable one. Nationality.—Nearly half of the casesrecorded (8) were either born in Germany June, 1920. Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey. 191 or of German parentage. Four (4) wereof English descent, the others were Amer-icans by birth or by descent for at leastthree generations. These were all ofEnglish descent originally. It would ap-pear, therefore, that this disease is aboutequally divided in this series between theGerman and English nationalities. Sofar as could be ascertained, there was no Before going further in the discussionof Raynauds Disease, let us consider, indetail, a few instances which represent ina more or less typical way, the character-istic features of the disease as describedby Raynaud himself. Illustrations.—There are no illustra-tions at all in Raynauds original thesis,nor in his subsequent work which ap-
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-Symmetrical Local Gangrene of the Tips of the Thumb andol ail of the Fingers; Right Hand. Case IX. admixture of the Scandinavian or Latinraces in the ancestry of any of the casesobserved. Occupation.—At least five (5) of theindividuals, including one woman, wereengaged in occupations in which variousmetallic substances, particularly copper,were used more or less constantly. Thepossible influence of this material will bediscussed more at length when the etio-logy of the disease is considered. peared in 1874. Illustrations of the dis-ease are also absent in all of the standardbooks of medicine which the writer hasconsulted. Here and there in more thanone hundred articles can be found a veryfew illustrations. Most of these arephotographs, barely a dozen in all, andthis form of illustration is of little valuein emphasizing the contrast in the colorpicture shown by the skin. The illustrations in the present article 192 Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey. June, 1920. have been

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