IS GOUT DISAPPEARING.
In a lecture before the Bath Clinical Society, Dr. C. E. S. Flemming. of Bradford-on-Avon. said that “classical gout” was rarely seen today. Ho suggested the decline might he due to the decreased consumption of port wine and beer. “One of the most outstanding facts in the survey of the last few decades of medical practice.” he said, “is the decrease in alcoholism and all its associated morbid conditions.”
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White Ribbon, Volume 33, Issue 383, 18 June 1927, Page 10
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72IS GOUT DISAPPEARING. White Ribbon, Volume 33, Issue 383, 18 June 1927, Page 10
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