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Origin of Gout

Gout (caused by excessive alcohol consumption) is portrayed as a burning pain, inflicted by a demon with red-hot pincers. The blackbird is a harbinger of worse to come. Coloured etching after Henry William Bunbury, c. 1780s-1800, in the Wellcome Collection, V0010848. Figure 3.3 Page 66.

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