RHEUMATIC fever has been generally regarded as a disease principally affecting children, and its occurrence in adults has as a consequence been more or less ignored. The high incidence of this disease among members of the armed forces has, however, served to focus attention on its importance in older persons, particularly young adults. It is the purpose of this paper to present a composite picture of the clinical aspects of rheumatic fever as observed in a series of 1000 patients studied at a large naval hospital.EtiologyAlthough the etiology of rheumatic fever remains unknown, epidemiologic studies indicate that there . . .