On gout : its history, its causes, and its cure / by William Gairdner.

  • William Gairdner
Date:
1849
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Credit: On gout : its history, its causes, and its cure / by William Gairdner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    opinions had undergone great change, I have been led to further inquiry, and though on cer- tain points I may feel doubts strengthened, there are others on which re-examination and reflec- tion only bring additional conviction. What these are will sufficiently appear in the following pages. Whether my interpretations are true or false, my contemporaries must judge. But believing it may be of use to promulgate opinions earnestly and honestly formed, not so much from reading as from observation and meditation, I venture with diffidence, indeed, to add another volume to the many already written on this subject. I shall be more readily excused for calling upon physicians to read another book, if the opinion I entertain of the great frequency of gout be correct. We are apt not to consider a man as gouty unless he has suffered under a regular fit of the disease. I believe the gouty diathesis is often most perfectly developed in individuals who never see its local manifesta- tions, and I am convinced that the strumous is not more frequent than the gouty habit. This appears likewise to be the opinion of Dr. Prout, who, though he has nowhere directly stated his conviction, yet treats the two diseases as having their origin in the same
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