Uric acid : an epitome of the subject / by Alexander Haig.

  • Haig, Alexander, 1853-1924.
Date:
1904
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Credit: Uric acid : an epitome of the subject / by Alexander Haig. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    of SO called diseases, headache, epilepsy, mental depression, vertigo, and the whole collsemic group which are due to its effects on the circulation. These, it is now obvious, are not, strictly speaking, diseases at all, they are merely results of the action in the body of a single substance, and that single substance though formed in the body to some extent is not in normal conditions produced in such amount as to be harmful. It is only when, to the quantity of this sub- stance formed in the body, we add an equal or greater quantity already formed in the foods which we eat and thus introduced in these foods, that it comes to be present in the circulation or in the tissues in amounts sufficient to produce serious disturbance. I have therefore ceased to speak of these disturbances as diseases, though in the chapters which follow I shall mention them by their usual names so as to make it clear to what I am referring. But it will 1 am sure become more and more evident