“The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.”
Josh Billings
“GOUT, n. A physician's name for the rheumatism of a rich patient.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.”
Helen Rowland
“There is so much mud in this world of mankind that you can't help wonder how there still are rheumatisms...”
Mariana Fulger
“. . . the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families . . .”
George Eliot
“Some diseases that afflict humans today, such as malaria, gout and cancer, are truly ancient and were handed down to us from our distant ancestors. By studying the distribution of these diseases in other living and fossil organisms, we can gain insights into the nature of these diseases.”
Christopher Beard
“He tried to stretch it to a triple, but he gout caught up with the third baseman a little bit and jammed his neck. They ended up having to carry him off the field on a stretcher. It was a scary thing to see.”
Tim Lockwood
