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...Gout...
...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...
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...