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Excerpt from Gout: With a Section on Ocular Disease in the Gouty
How vivid the light thrown upon the problems of clinical medicine by the bio-chemists The story Of the fate Of protein and purin substances in the animal body, at one time a medley Of guesses and gaps, is gradually evolving into one Of relative certi tude and completeness. Revolutionary, in truth, the change, and many a cherished Shibboleth has been ruthlessly cast aside! With admiration not unmingled with awe we see them laying well and truly the foundations upon which in the ultimate scientific medicine must inevitably rest. Of these the very corner-stones are chemical physiology and chemical pathology, the rapid evolution Of which is profoundly altering our conceptions Of health and disease. Those vital pro cesses Of the organism that but yesterday we saw as through a glass, darkly, are now in great part illumined, and the distortions wrought in them by disease made more manifest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
