Word: gout
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...dead husband's clothing be laid out afresh every evening, also water in his basin, and this astonishing rite was performed with scrupulous regularity for nearly 40 years. . . . [There was also] Disraeli, twice premier of England, whom Lytton Strachey describes as 'a vainglorious creature racked by gout and asthma, dyed and corseted with a curl on his miserable old forehead kept in its place all night by a bandana handkerchief!' . . . Kant, while living in Holland, lived in 13 different places and changed his abode 24 times; Voltaire [was] inordinately vain, unscrupulous, once a forger and seemingly ever...
...mother, whom the crotchety Old Earl (Smith) refuses to meet, is soft-pedaled. The emphasis is placed on Ceddie's dealings with his grandfather, upon whom his influence is so healthy that the Old Earl presently stops dunning his tenants, takes to churchgoing, is cured of his gout. The menace of an imposter Qackie Searl) for Ceddie's heirdom appears and is disposed of. The picture ends with a ceremonious and charming scene in which Ceddie, Dearest and the Old Earl are happily reunited on Ceddie's tenth birthday, while Ceddie's Brooklyn friends, gaily hobnobbing...
...Thomas did not pop a suspender button last week as he did at his first Philharmonic concert in 1928. He was not suffering from gout nor had he tumbled into the first violins at rehearsal (TIME, March 14, 1932). But Sir Thomas always affords sure entertainment. He strolled on stage as casually as if he were taking an everyday turn in the park. He bowed leisurely, shrewdly appraised his audience. Then with a bounce he was up on the stand, swinging his baton as if it were a cricket bat, crouching, dancing, shaking his fist, whipping along a performance which...
...with a group of other James-haters. The island's No. 1 slave-buyer is Colonel Bishop (Lionel At will), a savage sugar plantation owner who runs his cumbrous mill with slave power. Peter Blood is promoted from the mill when he successfully treats the governor's gout, but he does not forget his wretched comrades. Meanwhile his insolence has earned the bitter hatred of Bishop and the affections of Bishop's niece Arabella (Olivia De Havilland...
Cinchophen. To stimulate the excretion of uric acid and thus to remedy certain states of gout, arthritis, rheumatism, sciatica and neuralgia, doctors recently adopted a synthetic drug called cinchophen, made from quinine and carbolic acid. Soon cinchophen users complained of jaundice. Many died, and, upon autopsy, revealed extensive degeneration of the liver. Doctors nevertheless hesitated to abandon this highly useful drug...