Gout, with a section on ocular disease in the gouty

by Llewellyn J. Llewellyn

Differential Diagnosis

The class of disorders that call for discrimination are those of infective origin. In the first place, acute articular rheumatism must be excluded; nor is it less necessary that we should eliminate gonorrhœal and syphilitic types; while, last, but not least, that vast group, the undifferentiated infective arthritides, is but too often a source of confusion.