...gouty matter on the extremities, makes life worse than death, and finally brings in death as a relief. comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any...disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals, and philosophers have all died of gout....

...down, down ! That is gout ! Gout — of which Sydenham has said, that " unlike any other disease, it kills more rich men than poor, more wise than simple....emperors, generals, admirals, and philosophers, have died of gout. Hereby nature shows her impartiality, since those whom she favours in one way, she afflicts...

...down, down! That is gout ! Gout — of which Sydenham has said, that, " unlike any other disease, it kills more rich men than poor, more wise than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals -uid philosophers have died of gout. Hereby nature shows her impartiality, since those whom she favors...

...rust of aristocratic hinges ;' and the celebrated Dr. Sydenham, writing on the subject, remarks, ' It kills more rich men than poor, more wise than simple....emperors, generals, admirals, and philosophers have died of gout.' Thus Nature shows her impartiality; for those whom she favours in one way, she afflicts...

...Sydenham himself, after suffering from the disease for thirty-four years, speaks of it as a comfort that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. " Great kings," he says, " emperors, generals, admirals and philosophers have all...

...afford good living. Sydenham himself, after suffering for thirty-four years, speaks of it as a comfort that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. "Groat kings," he says, "emperors, generals, admirals and philosophers have all died...

...many more of like eminence have suffered from the same complaint and ultimately died of it. In a word, gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise than simple. Indeed, Nature, the mother and ruler of all, shows in this that she is impartial and no respecter of...

...disease. " Great kings. emperors, generals, admirals, and philosophers have all died of gout/' which. '' unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple." In our day this fact is a poor consolation, for it is, as Fagge says, robbed of its...

...of the inherited proclivity often attaching to it. We are reminded of this by Sydenham's lines : ' For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor...disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals, and philosophers have all died of gout....

...first man minutely to study the disease, remarked that, unlike any other complaint, "it kills more rich than poor; more wise than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals, and philosophers have died of gout." In one of Pitt's last letters to the Marquess Wellesley, he alludes to his slow recovery...