Word: gout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lord Pembroke called it, without which his conversation would seem less extraordinary, appeared conspicuously in almost every one of the 101 days of his stay. Opinions on fornication ("I have much more reverence for a common prostitute than for a woman who conceals her guilt"), on gout, gunpowder, tanning, brewing, tragic acting, brought it out boldly. Much of the material deleted from the first published version of the Journal deals with the food the friends were served, with too-candid remarks on persons then alive. One strange excision describes a peculiar mood Johnson fell into while discussing linen with Boswell...
...Salpetriere (public hospital for the aged and insane) which wielded a potent influence in medicine and psychiatry. Charcot pooh-poohed the antique physiological theories of hysteria, probed the psychological sources through hypnotism. He differentiated the manifestations of locomotor ataxia, published researches on many another malady from gout to chronic pneumonia, some of which bear his name. At the height of his fame a young physician named Sigmund Freud went to study with him, and under his tutelage and encouragement pursued the researches that eventually flowered in Freudian psychoanalysis...
...winter sporting capital as to require a season at "Physcultopathist" Macfadden's Physical Culture Hotel at Dansville, N. Y. (rates $33.50 to $80 per week, with extras). There he might choose a Macfadden diet-&-exercise cure which is supposed to correct 150 human miseries, including acidosis, alcoholism, apoplexy, gout, impotence, lowered vitality, masturbation, ptomaine poisoning, sleepwalking, sterility and writer's cramp. Patrons showing up in "trances" are warned that they must pay their own attendants...
Cinchophen is a bitter white powder discovered in 1887 and used since 1908 as a treatment for gout, arthritis, rheumatic fever, neuralgia, neuritis, sciatica. By 1932 U. S. invalids were annually using 90,000 Ib. of cinchophen and its derivatives...
...dead husband's clothing be laid out afresh every evening, also water in his basin, and this astonishing rite was performed with scrupulous regularity for nearly 40 years. . . . [There was also] Disraeli, twice premier of England, whom Lytton Strachey describes as 'a vainglorious creature racked by gout and asthma, dyed and corseted with a curl on his miserable old forehead kept in its place all night by a bandana handkerchief!' . . . Kant, while living in Holland, lived in 13 different places and changed his abode 24 times; Voltaire [was] inordinately vain, unscrupulous, once a forger and seemingly ever...