Salicylates and similar drugs are useful in relieving the pain.
"Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition."
Alexander Miles Alexis Thomson
The fever usually runs a lower course than that of genuine acute articular rheumatism, the pain is not favorably affected by Salicylates, and the duration of the disease is generally longer.
"Psychotherapy"
James J. Walsh