Word: gout
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...years old, active and healthy. ... I believe that radium water has a definite place in the treatment of certain diseases and I prescribe when I deem it necessary." He '"knew," he declared, that Byers had died "from a combination of blood diseases which had induced gout...
...same bill over the protests of President Hoover, Secretary Mellon and General Hines, director of the Veterans' Bureau. Theoretically the measure was still a compensation for War disability; practically it was a headlong plunge to pensions for veterans disabled in civil life. Under it a veteran stricken with gout on Dec. 31, 1929 would be compensated equally with a soldier who lost his legs in the first week of fighting. In the debate Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, an A. E. F. veteran who opposed the Bonus, boldly declared that he was ready now to shift the whole governmental...
...House into a lather of sentimental excitement about War veterans, got his proposal adopted by a vote of 324-49 after Mr. Johnson, outraged, asked that his name be removed from the measure. Congressman Wood pointed out that under this bill a veteran, hale and hearty, could contract gout on Dec. 31, 1929, blame it on the War eleven years before, collect, under the broad presumption clause, $225 per month as compensation. His prediction was that the House measure would add from 500 million to a billion dollars per year to the U. S. cost of veteran...
...Oldtime watering place famed for gout and gambling...
William H. Woodin, president of the American Car & Foundry Co., held a directors' meeting. Mr. Woodin was suffering from a fractured patella; hence the meeting was held in Mr. Woodin's hospital bedchamber where he sat, like a squire with the gout, one bandaged leg propped up in front of him on a cushioned stool. Despite his injuries, Mr. Woodin was capable of declaring dividends of $1.75 on American Car & Foundry's $30,000,000 preferred stock (the regular amount); of $1.50 on its 600,000 shares of no par value common...