Didn't they use to refer to gout as the "Rich Man's Disease"?

Also the "disease of kings," because only the rich could afford to drink alcohol and eat meat, seafood and the rich, fatty foods associated with gout.

Eat your veggies.

Marlene

Marginal mandibulectomy 6/17/08 resulted in DX of Stage I SCC - gingiva (3 mm) right mandible, buccal side. Clear margins. Occasional social drinker. Smoked last cigarette in 1979. Clear pet: 12/08; 7/20/09. Yay!