Editing Rheumatoid arthritis (section)

==History==
The first recognized description of RA in modern medicine was in 1800 by the French physician [[Augustin Jacob Landré-Beauvais]] (1772–1840) who was based in the famed [[Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital|Salpêtrière Hospital]] in Paris.<ref name=Landre1800/> The name "rheumatoid arthritis" itself was coined in 1859 by British rheumatologist [[Alfred Baring Garrod]].<ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Garrod AB | title=The Nature and Treatment of Gout and Rheumatic Gout | year=1859 | publisher=Walton and Maberly | location=London}}</ref>

The art of [[Peter Paul Rubens]] may possibly depict the effects of RA. In his later paintings, his rendered hands show, in the opinion of some physicians, increasing deformity consistent with the symptoms of the disease.<ref name="pmid7005475">{{cite journal | vauthors = Appelboom T, de Boelpaepe C, Ehrlich GE, Famaey JP | title = Rubens and the question of antiquity of rheumatoid arthritis | journal = JAMA | volume = 245 | issue = 5 | pages = 483–486 | date = February 1981 | pmid = 7005475 | doi = 10.1001/jama.245.5.483 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/538251 |title=Did RA travel from New World to Old? The Rubens connection |publisher=Medscape | vauthors = Kelly J |date=14 June 2005 |access-date=March 3, 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131215072634/http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/538251 |archive-date=15 December 2013 }}</ref> RA appears to some to have been depicted in 16th-century paintings.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Dequeker J, Rico H | title = Rheumatoid arthritis-like deformities in an early 16th-century painting of the Flemish-Dutch school | journal = JAMA | volume = 268 | issue = 2 | pages = 249–251 | date = July 1992 | pmid = 1608144 | doi = 10.1001/jama.268.2.249 }}</ref> However, it is generally recognized in art historical circles that the painting of hands in the 16th and 17th century followed certain stylized conventions, most clearly seen in the [[Mannerism|Mannerist movement]]. It was conventional, for instance, to show the upheld right hand of Christ in what now appears a deformed posture. These conventions are easily misinterpreted as portrayals of disease.{{citation needed|date=July 2022}}

Historic (though not necessarily effective) treatments for RA have also included: [[RICE (medicine)|rest, ice, compression and elevation]], [[apple]] diet, [[nutmeg]], some light exercise every now and then, [[Urtica|nettles]], [[bee]] venom, [[copper]] bracelets, [[rhubarb diet]], extractions of teeth, [[fasting]], [[honey]], [[vitamin]]s, [[insulin]], [[magnet]]s, and [[electroconvulsive therapy]] (ECT).<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Hart FD | title = History of the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis | journal = British Medical Journal | volume = 1 | issue = 6012 | pages = 763–765 | date = March 1976 | pmid = 177148 | pmc = 1639217 | doi = 10.1136/bmj.1.6012.763 }}</ref>

===Etymology===
Rheumatoid arthritis is derived from the Greek word ''ῥεύμα-rheuma (nom.), ῥεύματος-rheumatos (gen.)'' ("flow, current"). The suffix -''oid'' ("resembling") gives the translation as ''joint inflammation that resembles [[rheumatic fever]]''. Rhuma which means watery discharge might refer to the fact that the joints are swollen or that the disease may be made worse by wet weather.<ref name=Paget2002/>