ESSAYS ON
ON GOUT

And Its Affinities;

AND

THE TREATMENT OF THE GOUTY.

BY

WILLIAM LOMAS, M.D.,

MEMBER OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS; SENIOR PHYSICIAN
TO THE SEASIDE CONVALESCENT HOSPITAL AND TO THE

ROYAL GENERAL DISPENSARY.

"Various accidents and habits of living more frequently determine
the number of a man's years than the strength of the stamina with
which he was born."-SIR H. HOLLAND.

PREFACE.

THE emphatic words of Lawrence, that " our most grievous ills are our own work," apply with full force to the disease which forms the subject of these Essays. Gout is one of the most preventable of diseases; and there are few maladies which medical science can so successfully combat. Although it is certain. that this malady is less prevalent in our country now than it was fifty years ago, yet it still afflicts a considerable number of our affluent countrymen; and since it springs from neglect of laws of health which are within our control, its presence-like the presence of some other prevalent diseases—is an unmistakable reproach to us.

99, GOWER STREET,

1876.

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