Word: gout
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...said a diplomat in Bonn, where Leonid Brezhnev arrived last week on his first trip to the West in nearly a year. It is no secret that the Soviet boss, now 71, has a long history of medical problems, which Western intelligence agencies believe may include gout, leukemia, emphysema and a heart condition that requires him to have a pacemaker. Still, the health precautions that were taken for his four-day stay were startling...
Eleanor is now 82. Foster died of can cer in 1959, displaying to the last the great family stoicism that prompted one of his doctors to remark that he was the only man he had known who insisted on walking normally when suffering from gout...
...complaints in which (extract of hemp) has been specifically recommended are neuralgia, gout, rheumatism, tetanus, hydrophobia, epidemic cholera, convulsions, chorea, hysteria, mental depression, delirium tremens, insanity, and uterine hemorrhage...
...Including warnings against taking aspirin while under treatment for ulcers or other bleeding problems, during the last three months of pregnancy, or except under a doctor's guidance while taking prescription drugs for thinning of the blood or for diabetes, gout or arthritis...
Brezhnev at 70 looks in robust health, negating rumors over the past three years that he was nearing the end of the road because of cancer or leukemia, gout or heart trouble. He has given up smoking at the insistence of his doctors. He puts in a busy schedule. His one concession to age is that he now wears a hearing aid in public. There is no indication that he plans to retire voluntarily, which would be an unprecedented action for the top Soviet leader...