Pathology of Rheumatic Diseases

Pathology is no longer the" dead science" it was reputed to be a few decades ago. The famous Canadian pathologist, William Boyd, expressed the newer attitude aptly when he stated that pathology should no longer be concerned simply with describing the" WHAT" of disease, but must be increasingly con­ cerned with the "HOW" and the "WHY". By this he implied that the preoccupa­ tion of the usual student of disease in the architecture of diseased tissues and descriptions of participating cells, their