On dysmenorrhoea and other uterine affections, in connection with deragement of the assimilating functions / by Edward Rigby.

Date:
1844
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    but I believe at present that they are; and that, like gout and rheumatism, they sometimes exist in conjunc- tion. Gouty irritation of the urethra often assumes all the characters of gonorrhoea, and is not only attended by a profuse discharge, but with great irritation and scalding in passing water I have seen repeated in- stances of such attacks; by far the greater proportion of which have occurred in those who have had a strong predisposition to gout, either inherited or acquired, but who have never had gout openly Rheumatic-gouty irritation of the urethra sometimes attacks those who labour under the affection in other parts of the system*.” How far the mucous membrane lining the ureter and pelvis of the kidney itself is capable of secreting the albuminous mucus in the rheumatic or gouty diathesis, and how far this is connected with the difficult subject of serous urine, must still remain a matter of doubt. That the kidneys frequently suffer in this diathesis, and that it is occasionally attended with serous urine, is now a well-ascertained fact; but the precise connection between this diathesis and those forms of albuminous nephritis, as described by M. Rayer, and more espe- cially that variety attended with granular degeneration Op. citat. p. 377, 4th edition.