Historical gout

Newspaper cuttings making reference to scientific and non-scientific treatments for gout and caricatures of the medical profession
Notes on the purpose of diagnosis and physician practice over time
Correspondence regarding the medical practice of Sir Dyce Duckworth 1840-1928, written by his son Arthur Dyce Duckworth to Copeman in 1955.
Views on physical medicine by Dr Michael Mason, 1948, expressed in a letter to Copeman.

Sir Dyce Duckworth (1840-1928) was a high profile Victorian British surgeon, physician, and dermatologist, with an interest in gout. He first studied at Royal Institution School, Liverpool and then studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating there in 1862 and gained his MD from the University of Edinburgh in 1863 with a thesis on the adrenal glands. He worked in Edinburgh and spent some time in naval medical service. He was appointed as Medical Tutor at St Bart's Hospital in London in 1865 and followed a medical and teaching career thereafter. He was also a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, vice president of the Royal British Nurses Association and President of the Clinical Society.
He was also an exponent of the art of medicine and feared that this would be lost if medicine was seen as an exact science. He made some contributions to medical literature but his chief work was his Treatise on Gout (1889), which was popular at the time and was translated into French and German.