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 By the same Author.

THE CKOONIAN LECTURES FOR 1886. Price 3s. Qd.

ON SOME POINTS IN THE PATHOLOGY OF

RHEUMATISM, GOUT, AND DIABETES; the Croonian Lectures for 1886, delivered at the Royal College of Physicians, London.

" Nothing could be clearer or more precise than Dr Latham's exposition of the difficult problems with which he essays to grapple Further research will demonstrate how far the author's views are scientifically sound; but in any case his work is a most praiseworthy and valuable contribution to modern medicine, and ought to be read and pondered by every physician who is interested in the elucidation of the vast problems of which it treats." — Saturday Rcvieiu.

" We believe their perusal will repay every thoughtful practitioner of medicine, for Dr Latham has, we think, succeeded in the endeavour to indicate some of the changes in the nervous system, the blood, and the tissues which may take place in diabetes, rheumatism, and gout. He has, further, brought together a number of facts, as he says himself, and drawn certain inferences from them, which, whether right or wrong, will certainly help to a better understanding of the diseases in question." — British Medical Journal.

" The arguments in support of Dr Latham's views afforded by appropriate treatment of rheumatism, gout, and diabetes by salicylic and benzoic acids and colchicum are not the least interesting part of the Croonian Lectures." — The Lancet.

"Dr Latham has made a valuable addition to the literature of the diseases which he discusses. Whatever may be the opinion as to his theory, there can be no two opinions as to the skill and ability with which he has collected and stated his facts and drawn his conclusions." — Scotsman.

" These lectures will serve a most important purpose by bringing to a focus, as it were, not only the author's own investigations, but the work of his contemporaries, and by causing interest in a field of investigation which is only now opening up to workers at physiological chemistry." — Edinburgh Medical Journal.

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