1566 (J. Alday, tr. Baoystuau’s Theat. World), “Their legges full of gouts.”
1579 (Langham, Gard. Health, 1633), “For all goutes, seethe Leekes and Otemeale with sheepes tallow, and apply them hot.”
1590 (Spenser, F. Q.), “And eke in foote and hand A grievous gout tormented him full sore.”
1697 (Dryden, Virg. Georg.), “From Winter keep Well fodder’d in the Stalls, they tender Sheep.... That free from Gouts thou mayst preserve thy Care.”
1704 (Fuller, Med. Gymn.), “There have been some Gouts ... which nothing could remove but a very low Diet.”
1732 (Pope, Ess. Man.), “So, when small humours gather to a gout The Doctor fancies he has driv’n ’em out.”
1822 (Ld. Eldon, in Twiss Life), “I found the King in bed yesterday. He has had a pretty severe gout.”—New English Dictionary, Oxford, 1901. (Ed. Sir James Murrary.)
[3] Pitt, in one of his last letters to the Marquess Wellesley, deplores his slow recovery from severe attacks of gout with which, by the bye, the statesman Fox was likewise affected.
[4] Both Norman Moore and Bowlby subsequently upheld Ord’s view that uratic deposits only occur in tissues already degenerated. “Ebstein’s view has been modified by Von Noorden, who holds that a special ferment leads to the tissue change, to which the deposit of the urate is secondary.”
[5] Physiognomy of the Goutily Disposed.—Taking the principles as laid down by Laycock, the peculiarities of those thus affected fall under the head of the sanguine arthritic diathesis. (That careful observer did not fail to note the modifying influences of gout upon struma and other cachexia.) Thus may be compared the physiognomy of the diathesis and its associated cachexia (developed in time):—