Publications by authors named "W F Kean"
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- Reactive arthritis, previously called Reiter's Syndrome, is characterized by asymmetrical acute joint pain, fever, and various symptoms like conjunctivitis and rash.
- Although named after Hans Reiter, the condition had been documented earlier by French doctors who studied soldiers with similar symptoms during World War I.
- Due to Reiter's controversial past, including his allegiance to the Nazi regime, the term has been changed to reactive arthritis for ethical and clinical reasons.
John Alexander Mullin (1835-1899): The Canadian Physician who first described Osler's Nodes.
Inflammopharmacology
February 2024
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- Sir William Osler highlighted painful nodes in subacute bacterial endocarditis in 1909, earning them the name "Osler's nodes" and publishing his findings in the Quarterly Journal of Medicine.
- Dr. John Alexander Mullin is credited with initially pointing out these nodes to Osler.
- There is confusion between Osler's nodes and non-tender skin lesions (Janeway lesions) found in acute bacterial endocarditis, but research shows that their underlying causes and tissue characteristics are essentially the same.
Spondyloarthropathies and arthritis post-infection: a historical perspective.
Inflammopharmacology
February 2024
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- - The spondyloarthropathies are a group of conditions primarily affecting spinal joints, often linked to genetic factors like the HLA-B27 antigen, and include Ankylosing spondylitis, reactive arthritis, and arthritis related to Crohn's and colitis.
- - Ankylosing spondylitis predominantly affects males and is characterized by seronegativity for rheumatoid factor and potential extra-articular symptoms like iridocyclitis.
- - Reactive arthritis typically follows infections of the gastrointestinal or genitourinary tract, while Crohn's and colitis-related arthritis often involves asymmetrical large joint pain; additionally, conditions like acute rheumatic fever and Lyme disease can lead to post-infection arthritis. *
William Soutar (1898-1943) was a Scottish poet, but many are unaware of his scholarly work which includes his famous "brain-rhymes". He was born in Perth Scotland in 1898. He was educated at Perth Primary School and Perth Academy and proved to be adept at sport and academics.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis review is based investigations on the Western Isles, Scotland, by Martin Martin, a notable Scottish Highlander, academic and medical doctor, of the 17th-18th century. His extensive observations of the geography and peoples of these Isles were recorded in his books, "On the Description of the Western Islands of Scotland Circa 1695" and "A Late Voyage to St Kilda". In these books and subsequent papers there were some noteworthy observations on the occurrence (and as he says non-occurrence) of "epidemical" diseases and conditions afflicting the peoples of The Isle of Skye and the Western Isles of Scotland in this period, and these are discussed in this review.
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