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prasanth5
01-12-2010, 01:45 AM
The name 'rheumatoid arthritis' was coined by a British rheumatologist Dr. Alfred Baring Garrod in the year 1859, though 4500 BC could be traced as the time when early sufferers ever lived. A French doctor by name Dr. Beauvais was the first to list out the symptoms of the ailment.