Gout
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
gout · gouty affections
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Aphorisms
A named joint disease with demographic susceptibility rules and seasonal pattern
Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
A woman does not take the gout, unless her menses be stopped.
A young man does not take the gout until he indulges in coition.
Letters to Lucilius
A disease of the joints and feet, used as an analogy for the unavoidable eventual recognition of bodily affliction.
but once it has begun to bind the ankles too and to make both feet right feet, then there is no escape — one must confess to gout.