Gout is known as the "disease of kings", as it is wont to affect high profile statesmen, intellectuals, athletes, artists and actors, and practically anybody's who's who. It is also said to be the "king of diseases", in the intensity of pain and disability which are its hallmarks.
Looking at the following persons plagued by the gout, one might hypothetically ask how the world would have been, had these men not have the gout.
(from: 8 famous people with gout, http://www.health.com/health/gallery/0,,20451892_9,00.html?)
King Henry VIII, Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Johnson are among the best documented pre-20th century cases of the gout.
It is said that King Henry VIII was infamous for both his head-chopping spree, and his gout malady. Without the gout, would his queens have kept their heads?
Benjamin Franklin, inventor and statesman, who was famous for drafting the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America, was infamous for the absences he made during the drafting due to the gout. The Declaration of Independence is one of the world's greatest document, complete in content and intent, but as an inventor, could he have made other great inventions?
British author and poet, a top man of letters, seemed to have a mild form of gout, 'which never climbed above the ankles". He probably also had Tourette's syndrome. Would he have written greater works and expanded his Irene or Vanity of Human Wishes ?
Gout affects such illustrious names, so that if you have the gout, surely, you are in good company.
Looking at the following persons plagued by the gout, one might hypothetically ask how the world would have been, had these men not have the gout.
(from: 8 famous people with gout, http://www.health.com/health/gallery/0,,20451892_9,00.html?)
King Henry VIII, Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Johnson are among the best documented pre-20th century cases of the gout.
It is said that King Henry VIII was infamous for both his head-chopping spree, and his gout malady. Without the gout, would his queens have kept their heads?
Benjamin Franklin, inventor and statesman, who was famous for drafting the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America, was infamous for the absences he made during the drafting due to the gout. The Declaration of Independence is one of the world's greatest document, complete in content and intent, but as an inventor, could he have made other great inventions?
Gout affects such illustrious names, so that if you have the gout, surely, you are in good company.
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