Gout, its pathology and treatment / by Arthur P. Luff.

Date:
1898
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Credit: Gout, its pathology and treatment / by Arthur P. Luff. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER VI. page Composition of the amorphous urate deposit of urine—Causes of uratic deposition—Formation of the gouty deposit— Time occupied in the conversion of sodium quadriurate into hiurate—Seats of uratic deposition in gout . . 83 CHAPTER VII. Causes affecting the deposition of sodium biurate—Reasons for the special selection of the great toe and ear as seats of gouty deposits—Cause of the inflammation accompanying the gouty paroxysm 92 PART II. 2ETIOLOGY OF GOUT—THE VARIOUS FORMS OF GOUT AND THEIR CLINICAL FEATURES — DIAGNOSIS AND PROGNOSIS. CHAPTER VIII. .Etiology of gout—Predisposing causes of gout—Exciting causes of gout—Acute gout—Chronic gout—Saturnine or lead gout—Irregular or abarticular gout 105 CHAPTER IX. Irregular gout affecting the alimentary tract—Irregular gout affecting the air-passages and lungs—Irregular gout affecting the heart and vessels—Irregular gout affecting the nervous system—Irregular gout affecting the genito- urinary system—Irregular gout affecting the skin—Gouty glycosuria and diabetes — Gouty hepatic congestion— Gouty affections of the eye and ear—-Retrocedent or metastatic gout—Diagnosis and prognosis of gout . .116 PART III. THE AUTHOR’S INVESTIGATIONS OF CERTAIN POINTS CONNECTED WITH THE TREATMENT OF GOUT. CHAPTER X. Experimental investigation of certain conditions and factors affecting the solubility and the precipitation of sodium quadriurate and sodium biurate 128