Gout
Gout was a disease.
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The wife of Kublai Khan disapproved of him gambling at backgammon in 1289 as she believed it aggravated his gout. (TV: "Assassin at Peking")
According to Charles, his father conveniently felt the effects of a draft or his gout when he was losing at a game in 1666. (TV: The Visitation)
As "Doctor Von Wer", the Second Doctor offered Colonel Attwood a remedy for, among other things, "the gout". Attwood, however, insisted that he did not have the gout. (TV: The Highlanders)
By early 2006, Adam Mitchell's father had arthritis, however his mother thought he had gout. (PROSE: Essay Competition [+]Loading...["Essay Competition (short story)"])