Observations on gout, critical and pathological; or, an analytical survey of the views at present entertained of the nature of that disorder; with practical remarks on the injurious effects of colchicum, and on certain modes of diet / by A. Rennie.

Date:
1825
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Credit: Observations on gout, critical and pathological; or, an analytical survey of the views at present entertained of the nature of that disorder; with practical remarks on the injurious effects of colchicum, and on certain modes of diet / by A. Rennie. 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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    PREFACE. I If the author of these pages did not believe he could throw some light on the subject of inquiry, the task of exposing the imperfect, or erroneous views advanced and maintained by other writers, might be out of place; but having had the good, or, as some would have it, the bad fortune, to experience the gout in his own person — an advantage, he believes, not possessed by every inquirer who has preceded him — he has thereby enjoyed the opportunity of correcting professional ex- perience by personal; and of applying acknow- ledged pathological principles, to the various phenomena of this disorder, in a manner much more direct and satisfactory, than could possibly be done by mere observation, however frequently and variously exercised. In his own case, he has possessed the means of daily studying the various symptoms, ^heir constantly diversified characters, mid