Spinal bony bridging and carditis in Reiter's disease

soldier who developed both urethritis and conjunc-tivitis 8 days after the onset of a bloody diarrhoea; 2 days later joint pains appeared and these were followed by a stormy course lasting 13 weeks in which there was fever, polyarthritis, and iritis, but the final outcome was not recorded. Since that time the syndrome of urethritis, conjunctivitis, and arthritis has been commonly known as Reiter's disease or Reiter's syndrome. Reiter was not the first or even a very important observer of this syndrome, Sir Benjamin Brodie having described five cases 98 years earlier (Brodie, 1818), but his name is much used in the English-speaking world just as the names of Feissinger and Leroy are used on the continent of Europe (Feissinger and Leroy