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E. NEUWIRTH, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1943;72(3):377-387.

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Gout is one of the oldest diseases recorded. A description of it is found as early as the fifth century B. C. in the writings of Hippocrates.¹ Despite its antiquity, there is much that is still unknown. The term gout is derived from the Latin gutta, a drop. According to Antonius Guainerius,² of the faculty of Pavia (fifteenth century), gutta signifies a humor that trickles downward from the head on some internal organ. It also indicates an articular pain, because the humor enters the joints in a manner resembling raindrops dripping from trees and housetops. The Greeks called gout [ill] (a trap), because it grips the patient's foot as a trap grips the foot of an animal.³

The first use of the term gutta to designate gout is erroneously credited to Ralph Bocking (Radulphus),⁴ who about 1270 wrote a biography of St. Richard of Wyche, bishop . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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