Word: gout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tranquil Buddha. In a modest white palace overlooking the mile-wide Mekong sits worried 67-year-old King Sisavang Vong, afflicted with gout, but refusing all urgings that he leave his capital. Like his Thai people, the King is a fatalist. In the temples his people lay offerings and burn incense before tranquil, smiling images of Buddha, confident that whatever comes, it will inevitably change, as the mystic circle of life completes itself. It is exactly 500 years since Luang Prabang was last invaded...
...Resigned because of his gout...
...toyed with a harpsichord and browsed through his favorite books. A bachelor to the end, he interested himself in such things as gothic wallpaper, and compiled huge collections of notes for works he never executed. He pondered long and often on his special afflictions, melancholy and gout, and showed positive enthusiasm on the subject of death. "Our friend Dr. Chapman," he informed a correspondent briskly, "is not expected here again in a hurry. He is gone to his grave with five mackerel...in his belly. He eat them all at one dinner...They say he made a very good...
...praised to the skies for thawing out joints frozen by arthritis: its usefulness is limited and it is far too expensive. The good news was that a cheap drug (one-third the price of cortisone) has been found which relieves pain in most cases of arthritis and also in gout...
...Christopher Wren's architecture, the Queen Anne chair, the thinking of Bishop Berkeley and Isaac Newton and the writings of Swift, Addison, Pope, Steele and Defoe. Personally she was a dull, respectable woman who spent most of her reign swathed in bandages to ease the pain of her gout and dropsy. She produced 15 children but all died, leaving her the last of the royal Stuarts...