Word: gout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cover) "Do you know the story of the centipede with gout?" asked Joe Dodge. "Well, this poor centipede limped painfully for miles to consult the philosopher of the jungle, the monkey. After taking thought, the philosopher gave his solution: 'If you became a mouse and had only four legs, you would be 25 times better off.' The centipede said: 'That's a good idea. How do I get to be a mouse?' The monkey shook his head. 'I can't tell you that.' he said. 'I only make policy...
...before. Whig families owned most of the land, dwelt in "homes with 60 bedrooms," gambled away whole fortunes in a night, and lived and governed England with "an animal recklessness at once terrifying and exhilarating." Whig men believed that chastity was a dangerous thing; it gave a man the gout, they said. Fortunately, Whig women did their best to keep the boys gout-free...
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...experts also heard more about phenylbutazone, a nonhormonal substance synthesized from coal tar (TIME, June 16, 1952). They got an encouraging report on the use of phenylbutazone in the treatment of gout and gouty arthritis by Dr. William C. Kuzell of the Stanford University School of Medicine: major improvement or complete relief in 168 cases out of 200. Bad side effects, which have proved so serious that many U.S. doctors frown on phenylbutazone, were noted in 52 cases, but of these, 38 were cases in which it was possible to continue the treatment successfully, because the degree of toxicity...
...Conspirators. In Bern, which was teeming with spies, counterspies, exiles and dissidents from a dozen regimes, Dulles set up OSS headquarters for Europe. Often sick with the gout, Dulles worked late into the night, meeting agents under the cover of darkness. In time, his office became a center of the European Resistance, and one of the biggest and most effective intelligence-gathering units in the Allied world...