![]() With uncommon erudition, they move chronologically through medical texts ranging from the famous works of Hippocrates, Sydenham and Garrod to the more obscure but intriguing accounts of Cadogan, Stuckeley and Scudamore - many themselves afflicted with gout. ![]() Rousseau, professor of English literature, have joined forces to produce what will become the standard history of gout from antiquity to the 1930s. The prolific and inspired Roy Porter, professor of the social history of medicine, and G.S. So how does a book on gout - that ancient, chronic and relatively benign ailment - fit into this flurry of fascination fixated on sex and death? Chronicles of cancer, heart disease, blood disorders, STDs and neurologic conditions such as multiple sclerosis and the slow virus infections have also captured the public eye. ![]() Epidemics, including plague, cholera, smallpox, Ebola and AIDS are the focus of new books. Histories of disease have enjoyed a surge in popularity recently. Rousseau New Haven and London: Yale University Press 1998 393 pp. ![]() Gout: the patrician malady Roy Porter and G.S. ![]()
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