GOUT AND ITS CAUSES.

Gout and its comorbidities.

Gout is a chronic disease in which excessively high levels of serum urate (hyperuricemia) result in tissue depositions of sodium urate crystals and intermittent inflammatory attacks. Patients who have gout frequently experience a range of comorbidities, which complicates management and affects long-term prognosis. We review some of the more important of these comorbidities and consider the exte...

Rhazes viewpoints about causes, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of gout

Gout, a medical condition of acute inflammatory joint disorders, has been recognized from the antiquity. However, the name of Rhazes, a Persian historic physician who has described the etiology, signs, symptoms, epidemiology, treatment and prevention of this malady more than a thousand year ago, hasn't been taken into consideration appropriately. In this article, we studied and reported several...

Winter mortality and its causes.

In the 1970s scientific research focussed for the first time on dramatic rises in mortality every winter, and on smaller rises in unusually hot weather. Following the recent decline in influenza epidemics, approximately half of excess winter deaths are due to coronary thrombosis. These peak about two days after the peak of a cold spell. Approximately half the remaining winter deaths are caused ...

Coprostasis, Its Causes and Treatment

This is an admirable and pvactical little book which practising physicians will find of much use. Habitual constipation is a complaint every medical man has to deal with and one in which the skilled clinician is able to do much good. Of the present little book some chapters appeared in the author's Contributions to Practical Medicine (5th Ed., 1912). It contains six chapters and their contents ...

Leukorrhea; its causes and treatment.