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| #2840182 in Books | 1998-10-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.47 x6.52 x9.51l,1.99 | File type: PDF | 408 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Gout|By Dean Thomason|This is an interesting book, if one wants to learn about how gout was viewed and treated, during older ages when effective medicines were not yet discovered, and the actual causes of gout were not known. Is a historical overview with explained references from literature and plays and including journalistic cartoons and woodcuts showing those suffering fro|.com |In their study of an ailment that has tormented the big toes of some big men--Kant, Samuel Johnson, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson--Porter and Rousseau turn the argument of Susan Sontag in Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and its Metaphors on its head
Gout has interested medical writers and cultural commentators from the time of Ancient Greece. Historically seen as a disease afflicting upper-class males of superior wit, genius and creativity, it has included among its sufferers Erasmus, the Medici, Edward Gibbon, Samuel Johnson, Immanuel Kant and Robert Browning. Gout has also been the subject of medical folklore, viewed as a disease that protects its sufferers and assure long life. This book investigates the history ...
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