On gout : its history, its causes, and its cure / by William Gairdner.

  • Gairdner, William, 1793-1867.
Date:
1851
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Credit: On gout : its history, its causes, and its cure / by William Gairdner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    generating heat, is a very imperfect view of the most important office of living beings. How far I have succeeded in giving a wider scope to the vital alterations of the blood, the medical profession must determine. I, however, am not less urged by a consideration of the immediate phenomena than by reflection on their final cause, to the conclusion that their ultimate purpose and end are growth and nourishment, not mere destruction. Of the remainder of the work I can only say that I have sought to make it more worthy the accept- ance of the public, by enlarging and exemplifying all its practical parts, so as to embody clearly, though briefly, what I know of the disease of which it treats. W. G. BOLTON-STREET, PiCCAUILLY; May 6, 1851.