Gout famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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It was understood that nothing of a tender nature could possibly be confided to old Barley, by reason of his being totally unequal to the consideration of any subject more psychological than gout, rum, and purser's stores.
-- Charles Dickens -
..the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families...
-- George Eliot -
It is with jealousy as with the gout. When such distempers are in the blood, there is never any security against their breaking out, and that often on the slightest occasions, and when least suspected.
-- Henry Fielding -
So intense was his sexual frustration that it had begun to feel like a life-threatening illness: testicular gout, libidinal gangrene.
-- Ned Beauman -
Give me liberty or give me gout?! Ok, who's been messing with this?
-- Patrick Henry -
Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara.
-- Plutarch -
Luxury and Ostentation usually make me feel antsy, like I'm going to get a case of Gout
-- Stephan Jenkins -
The sound of the flute will cure epilepsyand sciatic gout.
-- Theophrastus -
Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout.
-- Thomas Sydenham -
I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation.
-- Thomas Sydenham
