Letters on the cause and treatment of the gout, in which some digressive remarks on other medical subjects are interspersed / By the late Robert Hamilton, M.D. of Lynn Regis.

  • Robert Hamilton
Date:
1806
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Credit: Letters on the cause and treatment of the gout, in which some digressive remarks on other medical subjects are interspersed / By the late Robert Hamilton, M.D. of Lynn Regis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ¥ the rest may be with reason reearded, merely as sub- altern or secondary, or, as they are called by some, remote causes, which by their activity do occasia- nally derange the economy of the system, from a. - heat state, by which the gouty matter or princi- ple, 1s developed, roused into action, and a paroxysm brought on, but how this is done we know not. This singularity of opinion may be deemed pre- sumptuous, and must be supported by some facts before it can gain credit; as it must appear very ex- traordinary that authors of great reputation should have advanced so many causes without some foun- cation. It is therefore incumbent on me to give my reasons for differing in opinion so widely, which I shallsubmit to your consideration with diffidence, relate with all the precision Ican, and flatter myself that in the course of the investigation, I shall be . able to adduce some proofs in the support of this very different way of thinking from others. I. The first cause in our catalogue, and the only one here allowed as constituting the real origin or proximate cause of Gout shall be first noticed. Authors in general admit of this cause, and daily experience proves, that it isa fact; and also proves that it is immaterial whether the father or mother of the arthritic persons actually had the gout, if their predecessors were afflicted with that distemper: as
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