Gout, and its relations to diseases of the liver and kidneys / by Robson Roose.

Date:
1885
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Credit: Gout, and its relations to diseases of the liver and kidneys / by Robson Roose. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    those of uncomplicated scarlatina. On the other hand, the disease may be almost entirely latent, its presence being revealed by obscure symptoms, slight in degree, and evanescent in character, and often refer- able to their true origin only when a decided family proclivity, or the subsequent progress of the case, serves to guide tha diagnosis aright. Midway between these forms are others in which the malady makes itself felt either in the internal organs alone, or in these alternately with the superficial parts. Thus, whilst in certain instances the symptoms may be indicative solely of functional disturbance or of structural mischief in the kidney, liver, or stomach, in others they alternate with external phenomena, such as pain and swelling in one or more of the joints. The study of an affection so complex, and, if I may be allowed the expression, kaleidoscopic in its character, is full of interest, but it obviously presents considerable difficulty. It is not my intention to discuss in detail the ordinary symptoms of gout, for they are too well known to need description. I shall only refer to such of its features as are more immediately connected with that theory of its pathology which I am anxious to establish. My object in this little work is to place