Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LECTURE III. NODULAR RHEUMATISM (Rheumatigme Noueux) AND GOUT, PATHOLOGICAL BLOOD-CONDITIONS OF GOTJT. Summary.?Frequency of Chronic Articular Rheumatism in the SalpetriSre?Its Resemblance to Gout?The Doctrine of Identity?Silence of the Physicians of Antiquity in this Regard?Necessity of taking up the Preliminary Study of Gout before that of Chronic Rheumatism?The Gouty Diathesis?Its General Characteristics?Regular and Irregular Gout?Acute and Chronic Gout?Pathological Blood-conditions of this Affection?Gouty Concretions composed of Urate of Soda?Uric Acid’s Normal Existence in the Blood?An Excess of it in the Blood of the Gouty?The
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Process?Uric Acid not in Excess in the Blood of Rheumatic Individuals?Gout not the only Disease which coincides with this Alteration?Accessory Changes in the Composition of the Blood in Gout?State of the Urine in Acute Gout during the Attacks and the Intervals between them; in Chronic Gout, Gentlemen: ?In the two preceding lectures we have studied the general characteristics which diseases present during the senile period of life; to-day I purpose to invite your attention to one of those chronic affections which is most commonly encountered in this hospital. I refer to chronic articular rheumatism, which most certainly constitutes one of the most common infirmities of females, at least those of the poorer classes; indeed, we find it in the proportion of eight in one hundred among the infirm women in the Salpetriere. It seems to me, then, that from a practical point of view, this question deserves to have your most careful attention, and all the more so since the pathological history of the disease presents many difficulties to be unravelled, many points to be cleared up. For quite a long period of time this apparently unprom…