Noun
A general disease characterized by painful, often multiple, local inflammations, usually affecting the joints and muscles, but also extending sometimes to the deeper organs, as the heart.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWe don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
What do you gain in heaven? You become gods, drink nectar, and get rheumatism. There is less misery there than on earth, but also less truth. Swami Vivekananda
The joint lubrication was not what it was when I was competing, and I decided that not having arthritis or rheumatism for the rest of my life was a lot more important to me than returning to the track. Edwin Moses
I'm an old man at 54, without teeth, and with rheumatism. Karl Dönitz
While your rheumatism stays with you I naturally feel anxious to hear often. If you should be so unlucky as to become a cripple, it will certainly be bad, but you may be sure I shall be still a loving husband, and we shall make the best of it together. Rutherford B. Hayes
The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout. Josh Billings