22 APRIL 1871, Page 24

Dr. Foakes writes a little book, Gout and Rheumatic Gout

(Philip and Son), to prove that these diseases ought to be treated not with mercury or colchicum, drugs which, he says, do nothing more than palliate, not without leaving bad effects behind them, but with certain other reme- dies which he specifies. Lay opinion will certainly go with him in his condemnation of the poisons frequently used, and will allow that UP) alternatives which he suggests have, at all events, a better reputation.