Is there a rheumatic constitution?

Rammelkamp, 1952, Studies on the Epidemiology of Rheumatic Fever in the Armed Services Galdston, 1957, Rheumatic Child and His World, Pediatrics, 19, 916, 10.1542/peds.19.5.916 Levine, 1951 Shrubsall, 1904, Physical Characters and Morbid Proclivities, St. Barth. Hosp. Rep., 34, 63 Honeyburne, 1940, Incidence of Rheumatism in Relation to Pigmentation of Hair and Eyes, Med. Officer, 63, 77 Swift, 1929, Rheumatic Fever, J. A. M. A., 92, 2071, 10.1001/jama.1929.02700510001001 Hill, 1928, The Rheumatic Child, Brit. J. Child. Dis., 25, 270 Irvine-Jones, 1933, Acute Rheumatism as a Familial Disease, Am. J. Dis. Child., 45, 1184 Lichtwitz, 1944 Paul, 1934, The Social Incidence of Rheumatic Heart Disease; Statistical Study in New Haven School Children, Am. J. M. Sc., 188, 301, 10.1097/00000441-193409000-00001 Paul, 1937, Climate and Rheumatic Heart Disease, J. A. M. A., 108, 2096, 10.1001/jama.1937.02780250010003 Maddox, 1937, Metropolitan and Rural Incidence of Acute Rheumatism, M. J. Australia, 1, 394, 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1937.tb99718.x Wilson, 1940, Rheumatic Fever Wood, 1926, The Etiology of Heart Disease, Am. J. M. Sc., 172, 185, 10.1097/00000441-192608000-00003 White, 1924, Rheumatic Fever, Chorea, and Rheumatic Heart Disease, J. A. M. A., 83, 425, 10.1001/jama.1924.02660060029010 Wetzel, 1943 Wiesel, 1914, Clinical and Pathologic Findings in Acute Rheumatism, Wien. med. Wchnschr., 66, 661 Dreyfus, 1947, An Observation Concerning the Hands of Patients With Rheumatic Fever, Acta Med. orientalia, 6, 12 Callegarini, 1957, Clinical Study on the Hyperextensibility of Fingers in Rheumatic Children, Bull. St. Francis Hosp., 14, 32 Stroud, 1940, Fifteen Years' Observation of Children With Rheumatic Heart Disease, J. A. M. A., 114, 629, 10.1001/jama.1940.02810080001001 Coburn, 1931 Koster, 1955, ABO Blood Groups and Gastric Acidity, Lancet, 2, 52, 10.1016/S0140-6736(55)92159-0 Aird, 1954, The Blood Groups in Relation to Peptic Ulceration and Carcinoma of Colon, Rectum, Breast, and Bronchus; Associated Between ABO Groups and Peptic Ulceration, Brit. M. J., 2, 315, 10.1136/bmj.2.4883.315 Buckwalter, 1956, ABO Blood Groups and Disease, J. A. M. A., 162, 13 Mourant, 1954 Race, 1956 Swift, 1943, ABO Non-secretors, J. Exper. Med., 78, 127, 10.1084/jem.78.2.127 Glynn, 1956, Secretor Status of Rheumatic Fever Patients, Lancet, 10, 795 Diamond, 1957, Hereditary and Environmental Factors in the Pathogenesis of Rheumatic Fever, Pediatrics, 19, 908, 10.1542/peds.19.5.908 Paul, 1957