Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Augustin Jacob Landré-Beauvais

  • From gout to rheumatoid arthritis

    Although the English physician William Musgrave described the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis in his 1715 publication De Arthritide Symptomatica, credit is usually given to the twenty-year-old French physician Augustin Jacob Landré-Beauvais (1772–1840). Working at the Saltpêtrière in Paris, he described a disease somewhat different from gout or degenerative joint disease. It affected the poor more…