"Gout, a physician's name for the rheumatism of……" — Ambrose Bierce

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• The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout. — Josh Billings
• Nothing agrees with me. If I drink coffee, it gives me dyspepsia; if I drink wine, it gives me the… — Mark Twain
• Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both. — Benjamin Franklin
• Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the… — Seneca the Younger
• The simplest way to look at all these associations, between obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, cancer, and… — Gary Taubes
• I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of… — Thomas Sydenham
• Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals,… — Thomas Sydenham
• When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies,… — Joseph Addison
• Luxury and Ostentation usually make me feel antsy, like I'm going to get a case of Gout — Stephan Jenkins
• ..the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families... — George Eliot
• So intense was his sexual frustration that it had begun to feel like a life-threatening illness: testicular gout, libidinal gangrene. — Ned Beauman
• I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others. — Thomas Browne

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