Rheumatism, its nature, its pathology and its successful treatment
By: by T.J. Maclagan
Contributors: Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Publisher: Pickering
Published: 1881
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
Subjects: Rheumatic Diseases - drug therapy; Salicylates - therapeutic use
Notes: Note: Sir Alfred Garrod discovered that gout was caused by an excess of uric acid in the blood and was thus able to distinguish the disease from other forms of arthritis. He classified arthritis into two independent diseases, osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis, and introduced the thread test for uric acid in the blood.

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