Excerpt from The Ophthalmic Review, 1905: A Record of Ophthalmic Science Investigating the habits and personal health of the patients, eight admitted taking alcohol in excess; nearly all took alcohol, and very many took what was undoubtedly too much; ten of them drank beer in excess, two of them were brewers' men, and one a potman of almost unlimited capacity for beer. Nearly all the most acute and severe cases occurred in this group. Over-eating is less easy to identify, but it was clearly present in some cases, combined generally with over-drinking, especially of beer. Nine patients had typical gout, seven others were subject to rheumatism or rheumatic pains, one to sciatica. Disturb anoes of the intestinal tract, faecal retention, or chronic constipation with indigestion, were present in seven cases; Read at the meeting of the British Medical Association in Oxford. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.