Excerpt from Wood's Medical and Surgical Monographs, Vol. 5: Consisting of Original Treatises and Reproductions, in English, of Books and Monographs Selected From the Latest Literature of Foreign Countries, With All Illustrations, Etc.; February, 1890 Some researches on the excretion of uric acid on which I have been engaged for several years, now seem likely to throw new light on the part played by this substance in the causa tion of disease. Some seven or eight years ago, being a regular. Sufferer from a severe form of migraine, and obtaining only inadequate relief from much advice and many drugs, I began to make careful notes of the circumstances of my trouble, and to regard especially all foods, drugs, exercise, and other conditions which had any real or supposed connection with it. For a long time there was little result, till on giving up meat, I at once found the intervals between the attacks prolonged, and persistence in this change of diet gradually produced almost complete immunity - an immunity which continues to the present time, but only so long as the diet is adhered to; and I have now been for six or seven years an almost total abstainer from butcher's meat, beer, wine, and cheese; though I have to some extent replaced the meat by an increased quantity of milk and fish; but even now any serious infringement of these diet rules is pretty sure to be followed by a headache. 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.