The phrase "a gout" is not correct in standard English usage.
The term "gout" typically refers to a specific medical condition and is usually used without an article.
Example: "He was diagnosed with gout after experiencing severe joint pain."
Alternatives: "gout condition" or "gout disease".
"A pox of this gout! or, a gout of this pox!" Falstaff says in "Henry IV".
The biologist fell head first into the swamp, sending up a gout of mud and gnawed sticks.
The Food and Drug Administration has declined to approve a gout drug developed by Savient Pharmaceuticals, the company said on Sunday.
Every time you walk down the street, it's a crowd.' " Two weeks into the visit, Mr. Raskolnikov has a gout attack so severe he takes to bed screaming.
If your doctor gives you a gout diagnosis, he or she will be able to tell you what's available, as can a quick web search.
Following the Methuen Treaty with Portugal in 1703, England was flooded with port and madeira, leading to what Messrs Porter and Rousseau term a "gout wave".
Edel notes that there was a secret drawer in the novelist's desk: "when it was discovered after his death, it yielded a gout remedy and a prescription for eyeglasses".
You could possibly paint a fresco or write a satire while enduring a gout attack, but running a country or conducting a war is a very different and very scary matter.
Katharine Hepburn, thrifty on personal spending, built up a huge family surplus: The auction -- including old credit cards, canceled checks and a gout footstool -- netted $5,856,100 for her heirs.
The warning was issued on Friday about 39 medicines injected in doctors' offices, including a gout drug called colchicine that sickened three Philadelphia patients last month because the drug was 10 times more potent than it should have been.
While Henry VIII, said to be a gout sufferer, could do his explaining with a headsman for anyone bold enough to ask him about his diet, simpler folks may need to settle for a flack.
