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.

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    ECZEMA IN GOUTY SUBJECTS. dance of urates and uric acid. Oxalate of lime is often present. Precipitation of urates sometimes takes place within the bladder, and in that case the urine is more or less turbid when passed. In a majority of cases the attack of articular in- flammation is preceded by many of these symptoms, and appears to follow them directly; while in some decidedly gouty persons no [other signs of gout than those which characterise the uric acid diathesis occur at any period of life. It may be said that in these latter cases the gouty phase is never reached. It is worthy of remark that some patients who suffer from aggravated dyspepsia, and from gout, find them- selves very much better than usual, as regards the dyspeptic symptoms, for some little time before the acute attack. There is one other symptom which I must not fail to mention. In many of my patients presenting the symptoms of gouty dyspepsia, I have noticed the occurrence of eczema, which appeared to alternate with the gouty symptoms, inasmuch as it increased in severity as the latter were relieved by the treatment. The dyspeptic symptoms can be removed by very careful attention to diet and appropriate medicines, and, if due care be taken, they will not necessarily