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Volume 350:1071-1073 March 11, 2004 Number 11 Next

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Gout is the only enemy that I do not wish to have at my feet.

— Reverend Sydney Smith, 1841

Gout, a disease that has been known since antiquity, is an acute, often recurrent arthritis mediated by the crystallization of uric acid within the joints and typically associated with hyperuricemia. Described by Hippocrates during the Golden Age of Greece, gout was originally a disease of the affluent, primarily observed in middle-aged men of the wealthy upper class ("the Patrician malady"). A "disease of kings and king of diseases," gout has often kept good company, afflicting kings (including Alexander the Great, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Division of Nephrology, Hypertension, and Transplantation, University of Florida, Gainesville (R.J.J.); and the Center for Reproduction of Endangered Species, Zoological Society of San Diego, San Diego, Calif. (B.A.R.).

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