Note 2 — Chapter I · HISTORICAL AND INTRODUCTORY
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920 (S. Eng. Leg.), “There cam a goute In is knee, of Anguische gret.... So longue, that is kneo to-swal.”
1310 (In Wright Lyric), “A goute me hath ygreythed so, Ant other eveles monye mo.”
1377 (Langl., P. Pl.), “He ... gyued me in goutes, I may noughte go at large.”
1400 (Lanfranc’s Cirurg.), “A man that hath arteticam, that is as myche to seie as a goute.”
1450 (M.E. Med. Bk., Heinrich), “Here wyth anoynte the goutes.”
1566 (J. Alday, tr. Baoystuau’s Theat. World), “Their legges full of gouts.”
1579 (Langham, Gard. Health, 1633), “For all goutes, seethe Leekes and Otemeale with sheepes tallow, and apply them hot.”
1590 (Spenser, F. Q.), “And eke in foote and hand A grievous gout tormented him full sore.”
1697 (Dryden, Virg. Georg.), “From Winter keep Well fodder’d in the Stalls, they tender Sheep.... That free from Gouts thou mayst preserve thy Care.”
1704 (Fuller, Med. Gymn.), “There have been some Gouts ... which nothing could remove but a very low Diet.”
1732 (Pope, Ess. Man.), “So, when small humours gather to a gout The Doctor fancies he has driv’n ’em out.”
1822 (Ld. Eldon, in Twiss Life), “I found the King in bed yesterday. He has had a pretty severe gout.”—New English Dictionary, Oxford, 1901. (Ed. Sir James Murrary.)