Arthritis treatment: Gout: A Past Description.
Christmas is fast approaching and if you go back in time, you will stumble on to Christmas Cards with ruddy faced men having a toast. That was how gout was seen in the old days. Today it is different but sadly gout is increasing globally.
Sidney Smith, a long time ago, described his gout as ‘Walking on my eyeballs.’
Here is a histirical explanation by the clinician, Thomas Sydenham, a gout sufferer.
“The patient goes to bed and sleeps quietly till about two in the morning when he is awakened by a pain which usually seizes the great toe, but sometimes the heel, the calf or the leg or the ankle. The pain resembles that of a dislocated bone…and is immediately succeeded by a chillness, shivering and slight fever.
The pain grows gradually more violent every hour and comes to its height towards evening, adopting itself to the numerous bones of the tarsus and the metatarsus, the ligaments whereof it affects: Sometimes the gnawing of a dog, and sometimes a weight and constriction of the parts affected, which becomes so exquisitely painful as not to endure the weight of the clothes, nor the shaking of the room from a person’s walking briskly therein.”
Hippocrates described gout in men and post-menopausal women. And it was in the nineteenth century that it was known that gout was due to high concentration of uric acid in the blood.
Dr.Phil Hariram,
Acid Reflux Guide.
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