Excerpt from A Treatise on the Cause and Cure of the Gout It has been always imagined that the gout is occasioned by some morbid matter circulating with the fluids, which, in process of time, becomes so copious and ripe, that it must necessarily be deposited in some particular part of the body. 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.