Gout

“ . . . practically all the beliefs and therapeutic methods prior to our own time . . . had their origin in Greek times and were passed down basically unchanged until the opening of the nineteenth century. With the exception of emetics all these methods appear to have had the sanction of the ‘High Priest of Gout’ Sir Alfred Garrod, who died as recently as 1907. It was with the discovery of the uricosuric substances [which increase excretion of uric acid]that the modern conception of long-term treatment started (Coperman, ch 1 “summary”).