AN ARTICLE CONTRIBUTED TO AN ANNIVERSARY VOLUME IN HONOR OF DOCTOR JOSEPH HERSEY PRATT
Authors: BERNARD M. JACOBSON
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1938)

Article1 January 1938AN ARTICLE CONTRIBUTED TO AN ANNIVERSARY VOLUME IN HONOR OF DOCTOR JOSEPH HERSEY PRATTTHE URIC ACID IN THE SERUM OF GOUTY AND OF NON-GOUTY INDIVIDUALS: ITS DETERMINATION BY FOLIN'S RECENT METHOD AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF GOUT*BERNARD M. JACOBSON, M.D.BERNARD M. JACOBSON, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-11-7-1277 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptSince the original description by Folin and Denis1in 1913 of a colorimetric method for the estimation of uric acid in blood, and the application of this method in the same year by Pratt2to the study of gout, scores of publications have concerned themselves with both methods and with blood uric acid values in health and disease. 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