Sentence examples for gout from inspiring English sources

I'm alleviating my gout, not curing it".

No issue if you're a big fan of carols but those members of the audience still young enough to believe Christmas is about Santa Christ (rather than choke-slamming rival shoppers while nursing your gout) didn't make it to the end awake.

As it was, it was just an opportunity for a discussion of Kim's love of cheese and whether it had contributed to what may have been debilitating gout.

Avoiding Hitler What the world is reading Written in anger Utility's limits Dissident politics on the net Where life began Rights and wrongs of genetic engineering Gout and glory The big empty ReprintsFirst and foremost, "The Pity of War" demolishes standard British cant about the war.

Avoiding Hitler What the world is reading Written in anger Utility's limits Dissident politics on the net Where life began Rights and wrongs of genetic engineering Gout and glory The big empty ReprintsMitterrand the Proud, mindful of his place in history, professed not to give a damn what his contemporaries thought of him.

Prints and engravings abound in which boozy, randy, gouty old men appear as figures of fun, their grotesquely swollen feet carefully bandaged and propped up on gout-stools.Excellent as it is in many respects, "Gout" is disappointing in others.

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".

Avoiding Hitler What the world is reading Written in anger Utility's limits Dissident politics on the net Where life began Rights and wrongs of genetic engineering Gout and glory The big empty ReprintsLord Chesterfield, rehearsing an established view, opined that "the gout is the distemper of a gentleman; whereas the rheumatism is the distemper of a hackney coachman".

So it is unfortunate that their own writing should be spoiled by clichéd turns of phrase, sloppy expression and a persistent uncertainty of register.Early on Messrs Porter and Rousseau admit that gout may seem a trivial subject in the age of AIDS—an illness which, like gout, has assumed great cultural importance and accumulated a host of metaphorical associations.

It addresses the nature and symptoms of gout, the history of its understanding by scientists, its treatments and the testimonies of its sufferers.

But it was during the 18th century that the imaginative response to gout was at its most wickedly comic.