podagra

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He had the podagra, (or gout), and ought not to have ventured forth; but zeal would not let him rest Verily our path is hedged about with thorns.

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  1. noun Gout, especially of the big toe.

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  • These particular symptoms of gout are more commonly referred to as podagra.
  • He had the podagra, (or gout), and ought not to have ventured forth; but zeal would not let him rest Verily our path is hedged about with thorns. —  Alfgar the Dane or the Second Chronicle of Aescendune
  • I confess, Sir, I confess that I still retain the tastes of my boyhood; the Muses cradled my childhood, they now smooth the pillow of my footstool--Quem tu, Melpomene, are not yet subject to gout, dira podagra: By the way, how is the worthy Doctor since his attack?--Ah, see now, if you have not still, by your delightful converse, kept me from his letter--yet, positively I need no introduction to you, Apollo has already presented you to me. —  Eugene Aram — Complete
  • I confess, Sir, I confess that I still retain the tastes of my boyhood; the Muses cradled my childhood, they now smooth the pillow of my footstool--Quem tu, Melpomene, are not yet subject to gout, dira podagra: By the way, how is the worthy Doctor since his attack?--Ah, see now, if you have not still, by your delightful converse, kept me from his letter- -yet, positively I need no introduction to you, Apollo has already presented you to me. —  Eugene Aram — Volume 04
  • This is most evidently true in podagra, unless the materies morbi_, by reason of its scarcity, produces no enlargement of the affected part Quoting the words of Rhazes, Gilbert tells us that the materies morbi of gout is, for the most part, crude and bloody phlegm. —  Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century
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  1. Middle English, from Latin, from Greek podagrā : pous, pod-, foot; see ped- in Indo-European roots + agrā, trap, seizing; see ag- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. In Middle English podagre, from Old French (and F.) podagre = Spanish Portuguese Italian podagra = D. G. Pan. podagra = Swedish podager; from Latin podagra, from Greek ποδάγρα, gout in the feet, from πούς (ποδ-), foot, + ἄγρα, a catching (cf. chiragra)
 

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