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Excerpt from Uric Acid as a Factor in the Causation of Disease: A Contribution to the Pathology of High Blood Pressure, Headache, Epilepsy, Nervousness, Mental Diseases, Asthma, Hay Fever, Paroxysmal Hæmoglobinuria, Anæmia, Bright's Disease, Diabetes, Gout, Rheumatism, Bronchitis, and Other Disorders
Among additions to this volume I may mention - the classification of uric acid diseases (p. A reference to which will, I hope, render the relationships of the processes more easy to understand (my readers must bear in mind that any classification in a progressing research is necessarily imperfect, but still, such as it is, I hope it will be useful) the record of some of my work with the uric acid filter throwing much light both on pathology and the action of drugs; some fresh work on the circulation, and some records of interesting cases to illustrate it. The chapter on treatment has also been largely te written, and contains my more recent practical points with regard to diet in circulation troubles, some of which are of great' importance.
What eleven years ago in the First Edition was little more than possibility or probability is now absolute certainty, and a certainty which can be made visible to the untrained and unaided eye in a few moments.
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