A Treatise on Gout

worth has at length conferred upon the profession the welcome boon of issuing his long-contemplated work on gout. Amid all the high-sounding phrases and the straining after scientific precision with which modern medicine abounds, it seems suggestive of Arcadian simplicity to read a book by an author of Sir D. Duckworth's eminence, in which are upheld the importance of treatment, the validity of the doctrine of diatheses, and superiority of English theories and practice to those of Germany or the United States. Explicitly professing himself not to be a specialist, and seeing gout therefore in its full relation to other diseases, Sir Dyce justly remarks that many years' experience of hospital and private practice in London has afforded him in this, the largest field for observation of gout in the world, such opportunities of acquiring an experience, which it is only right should be utilised for the benefit of the profession at large. This he has done with authority and success. We shall not subject our author to a detailed review, or even give an analysis of his work; everyone practising medicine must possess the book, which will take the place hitherto held by Sir A. Garrod's Treatise. We will content ourselves with one or two re-