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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1805. Excerpt: ... ckkvrm v. PARTICULAR AFFECTION OP THE JOINTS, APPARENTLY DEPENDENT ON THE SAME STATE OP THE SYSTEM AS THAT WHICH PRODUCES GOUT. HISTORY, DIAGNOSIS, &C. Jjesides those anomalous affections, already enumerated, as apparently depending on the same state of the fluids, as that which produces regular gout, there is one complaint, probably depending on the same cause, which merits particular attention, from the frequency of its occurrence, and the distressful inconveniences it occasions. This complaint is--an enlargement of the joints, which takes place sloicly, and zvhich differs, in several respects, from those which proceed from diseases hitherto described. * Whilst this work was at press, a few days only previous to this sheet being worked off, the author saw the advertisement of Dr. Haygarth's Clinical History of Diseases. On obtaining the work, he was surprised to find the Doctor had there fully treated of the disease, which is the subject of this Chapter, aud which had hitherto so much escaped the notice of medical writers. On perusing Dr. Haygarth's excellent work, some differences appeared between the doctor's account, and that which had been prepared for this work. To have corrected these in the present work, and thereby to have produced a nearer agreement of the two accounts, might, at first thought, appear to be no more than was actually due to the high professional abilities, and superior opportunities of information, possessed by Dr. Haygarth. But a regard for truth requiring that the facts should be related exactly as they occurred, it was thought fit to present them to the reader, with the observations they produced, as they had been originally noted; and to point out the more important variations, in the two reports, in marginal notes. The advantage of two separate..."
