Word: gout
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...Yourselfers. But the method has drawbacks and dangers. The WAVE developed gout* and anemia. It was the gout, and not hunger, that made her break her fast. Poe, the 550-pounder, also developed gout, and had a dangerous drop in blood pressure when he stood up. Four other patients showed the same drop in blood pressure. Only five men came through with no serious side effects, and none of these had lost more than...
Total starvation is too dangerous to be lightly undertaken on a do-it-yourself basis, the A.M.A. Journal warns. It should never be tried, even under a doctor's care, by patients with liver disease, gout or heart-artery disease...
...have just read the abusive editorial of Mr. Andrew T. Well, who must be a very young man, but who writes like a crotchety old snapper afflicted with gout or perhaps colic. Apparently Mr. Weil does not like the new building. "I loathe it," he tells us; and he applies the terms "hideous," "cheap," and "sleazy" to the work of the architect. Weil, I suppose there is plenty of room for disagreement in matters of taste (though it is also true that such disagreement can always be expressed in good taste, a point not particularly well exhibited by the editorial...
...terrace of his villa, La Capponcina (Little Capon), overlooking Monte Carlo, William Maxwell Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, leans on a Malacca cane. He looks as old as he is: 84. Age has bleached his skin to wrinkled parchment; one foot is shoeless, a concession to gout; a floppy, broad-brimmed straw hat shields him from the hot Mediterranean sun. But the sun has not been up much longer than the Beaver, and he is not there merely to bask...
...well as in life. In payment he gave royal protection, and no one basked more deliciously in the Sun King's rays than Charles Le Brun, "First Painter of the King" and for 20 years the absolute arbiter and benevolent tyrant of le bon gout français. Swept into museum storerooms as succeeding generations downgraded 17th century classicism, Le Brun has been rehabilitated this summer in an almost too complete exhibition at the Château de Versailles...