On gout as a peripheral neurosis / by Willoughby Francis Wade.

Date:
1893
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Credit: On gout as a peripheral neurosis / by Willoughby Francis Wade. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Second—Those which indicate that the nervous system is concerned in the production of gout, and are the basis of the neural or nerve theory of gout. This latter since the time of Cullen has always held a distinct though fluctuating hold of medical opinion. Of late years these two at one time opposing theories have been more or less held in conjunction. As indeed it seems to me they must be, unless we ignore some of the most prominent features, and best ascertained facts of the disorder. The weakness of the nerve theory has hitherto been its vagueness. And this has materially retarded its general acceptance. To this hitherto almost abstract proposition the localisation of the nerve element in a definite section of the nervous system gives concreteness. To many minds the nervous system in this relation, means nothing. Nothing that is which they can grasp. There is at all events no such difficulty in regard to neuritis, as we may at least provisionally term it. For the first time a tangible basis is given