New Treatment For Gout.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 17, 1912:
Paris Doctor Says the Present Ideas Are Quite Erroneous.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    PARIS, Nov. 16.— That current medical opinions and theories on the subject of gout and its treatment are altogether erroneous and pernicious is the opinion of Dr. Guelpa, a well-known Paris physician, expressed in an article in La Revue, which, on its publication, is certain to attract much attention.
    From a large number of experiments on cases of the most diverse character Dr. Guelpa declares that he has proved that, far from gouty subjects being confined to a vegetable diet and one of liquids without sugar or acid, the rational treatment of this disease should be based on a diet wherein meat takes the first, place together with acidulated drinks and preparations containing formic acid and sugar.
    This treatment, he states, if severely applied, is rapidly, followed by a great improvement in the patient's condition, and, if continued for several months, by a cure, even for sufferers from ankylosis who have been bedridden for years.