Excerpt from Uric Acid as a Factor in the Causation of Disease: A Contribution to the Pathology of High Arterial Tension, Headache, Epilepsy, Mental Depression, Gout, Rheumatism, Diabetes, Bright's Disease, and Other Disorders; With Thirty-Six Illustrations I nevertheless regard the investigation at which I have been working during these years as only in its very first stages, and this volume as a mere preliminary communication, and one which was only undertaken because I felt that papers thus scattered about in various journals did not do the subject justice; and it is certainly not with any feeling that the matter is ripe for final judgment that I now put it forward. 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.