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 



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