rheumatism

noun2

1. •
   Any disorder of the muscles, tendons, joints, bones, nerves, characterized by pain, discomfort and disability.

   • And then as to your scurvys, and gouts, rheumatisms, consumptions, coughs and catarrhs, tar-vvater and turpentine vvill make you as sound as a roach. — 1763
2. •
   Atrophic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis