Note 43 — Chapter XXIV · IRREGULAR GOUT
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Sir Spencer Wells in his “Practical Observations on Gout and its Complications and on the Treatment of Joints stiffened by Gouty Deposits.”
“Of the many cases related by authors as anonymous disease by far the greater portion were connected with a gouty diathesis, as indicated both by the formation of calculi, by the occurrence of regular paroxysms of gout, and by the descent of the individual from gouty ancestors; they are cases, in fact, which would have been better understood and better treated if they had been termed ‘anomalous gout’; but as the subjects are young females, they are of course set down as ‘anomalous hysteria.’”—Laycock: “Nervous Diseases of Women.”