Uric acid : an epitome of the subject / by Alexander Haig.

  • Alexander Haig
Date:
1904
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Credit: Uric acid : an epitome of the subject / by Alexander Haig. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    mentation sufficed to show that what I had just discovered in the case of this periodic headache (migraine, or as I now call it the “ uric acid headache ”) was but one instance of a general law, and that it was in my power, with acids and with numerous other substances, to diminish at any time the uric acid in the urine, and so to cure headache and all similar conditions, while it was also equally in my power at any time to increase the uric acid in the urine by giving a solvent alkali, and to produce headache and its concomitant symptoms by so doing. In fact, I soon found out that by the administration of solvents of uric acid, on the one hand, or precipitants of uric acid on the other, I could make the excretion of the uric acid in the urine from day to day or from hour to hour exactly what I pleased, and that in altering this excretion I altered all the symptoms which had been found in relation to it. I had thus come in sight of the fact that uric acid was directly or indirectly the
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