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Gout, with a section on ocular disease in the gouty

Chapter 1: GOUT
By Llewellyn J. Llewellyn
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This work examines gout through clinical, pathological, and biochemical lenses, analyzing uric acid metabolism, the formation of tophi, and the limitations of purely metabolic explanations. It argues for an infective contribution to many acute attacks, noting frequent coincident glandular infections, fever, leukocytosis, lymphadenopathy, and occasional lymphangitis or phlebitis, and considers infected foci such as dental and tonsillar disease as potential triggers. The text reviews diagnostic findings, morbid anatomy, joint aspiration cytology, systemic metabolic abnormalities, ocular complications, and implications for management that integrate metabolic and infective perspectives.

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Title: Gout, with a section on ocular disease in the gouty

Author: Llewellyn J. Llewellyn

Contributor: W. M. Beaumont

Release date: January 24, 2023 [eBook #69874]
Most recently updated: October 19, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United States: C. V. Mosby Company, 1921

Credits: Mark C. Orton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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Gouty Arthritis.

Note large tuberous swellings on knuckle and metacarpo-phalangeal joints due to uratic deposits.

GOUT

BY
LLEWELLYN JONES LLEWELLYN, M.B. Lond.

GOVERNOR AND SENIOR PHYSICIAN, ROYAL MINERAL WATER HOSPITAL, BATH;
FELLOW OF ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE; AUTHOR OF “ARTHRITIS DEFORMANS”;
CO-AUTHOR OF “FIBROSITIS”; CO-AUTHOR OF “MALINGERING, OR THE SIMULATION
OF DISEASE”; CO-AUTHOR OF “PENSIONS AND THE PRINCIPLES OF THEIR
EVALUATION”; CONTRIBUTOR TO LATHAM AND ENGLISH’S “SYSTEM OF TREATMENT,”
ALSO TO “OXFORD ENCYCLOPÆDIA OF TREATMENT” AND TO “STUDENT’S
TEXT-BOOK OF SURGERY.”

WITH A SECTION ON
OCULAR DISEASE IN THE GOUTY
BY
W. M. BEAUMONT

CONSULTING OPHTHALMIC SURGEON TO THE SOUTH-WESTERN
REGION OF THE MINISTRY OF PENSIONS; AUTHOR OF “INJURIES
OF THE EYES OF THE UNEMPLOYED, PROBLEMS IN PROGNOSIS,” ETC.

ST. LOUIS
C. V. MOSBY COMPANY
1921

Printed in Great Britain.

Dedicated
TO
MY WIFE